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- Dictionaryrevenant/ˈrɛvɪnənt/
noun
- 1. a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead: "he was three hundred years old, a terrible living revenant"
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In folklore, a revenant is a spirit or animated corpse that is believed to have been revived from death to haunt the living. The word revenant is derived from the Old French word revenant 'returning' (see also the related French verb revenir 'to come back'). Wikipedia