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An advocate or supporter a of movement that originated in U.S. Judaism in the 1920s; Also: An advocate or supporter of the reorganization and reestablishment of the seceded states in the Union after the American Civil War

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  • The election results left the state government weakly in reconstructionist hands.
  • I would not think that a Catholic country like Poland would be a "reconstructionist" culture.
  • I share your perplexity about the reconstructionist neo-pagans.
  • Washington and Lincoln couldn't be citizens in reconstructionist America.
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