革かく命めい児じ

noun

revolutionary; child of the revolution; person of revolutionary temperament

Refers to a person who leads or embodies a revolution, often with a connotation of being a product of revolutionary times. Compare 革命家 (かくめいか), which is a more neutral term for a revolutionary activist.

See also: 革命家 (かくめいか)

• 彼かれは現げん代だい音おん楽がくの革かく命めい児じと呼よばれている。

  He is called a revolutionary of modern music.

• その革かく命めい児じは新あたらしい政せい治じ思し想そうを広ひろめた。

  That revolutionary spread new political ideas.