Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-VOLT'
RE-VOLT', v.t.
- To turn; to put to flight; to overturn. – Burke.
- To shock; to do violence to; to cause to shrink or turn away with abhorrence; as, to revolt the mind or the feelings. Their honest pride of their purer religion had revolted the Babylonians. – Mitford.
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