revisionism
noun
re·vi·sion·ism ri-ˈvi-zhə-ˌni-zəm 
1
: a movement in revolutionary Marxian socialism favoring an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary spirit
2
: advocacy of revision (as of a doctrine or policy or in historical analysis)
revisionist
ri-ˈvi-zhə-nist
noun or adjective 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web But American Greatness’s veneration of Salazar still calls for a rebuke, because the sooner the proliferation of Salazar revisionism can be checked, the better. 
Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 12 Aug. 2021 This was not the first time Abbas has been accused of antisemitism and Holocaust revisionism. Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022 Without resorting to feeble revisionism, Mr. Middleton outlines the circumstances which contextualize, if not exonerate, Cornwallis’s passivity and poor judgment. Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022 But personal redemption and historical revisionism are different matters. David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022 Some have also suggested such portrayals -- as well as the plot's alleged historical revisionism -- could exacerbate conflict between India's Hindus and Muslims at a time when religious tensions in the country are increasingly hostile. CNN, 27 Apr. 2022 Candace Owens of the Daily Wire recommended that Americans get the straight story by listening to Putin’s deranged historical revisionism about Ukraine. Nr Editors, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022 Some viewers bristled at its preachy revisionism while others simply couldn't be bothered to turn out for what was, by one count, the fourth attempt to reboot James Cameron's franchise. Grayson Quay, The Week, 1 June 2022 Holocaust revisionism became an obsession later in life. James Mcauley, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022 See More
Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 12 Aug. 2021 This was not the first time Abbas has been accused of antisemitism and Holocaust revisionism. Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022 Without resorting to feeble revisionism, Mr. Middleton outlines the circumstances which contextualize, if not exonerate, Cornwallis’s passivity and poor judgment. Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022 But personal redemption and historical revisionism are different matters. David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022 Some have also suggested such portrayals -- as well as the plot's alleged historical revisionism -- could exacerbate conflict between India's Hindus and Muslims at a time when religious tensions in the country are increasingly hostile. CNN, 27 Apr. 2022 Candace Owens of the Daily Wire recommended that Americans get the straight story by listening to Putin’s deranged historical revisionism about Ukraine. Nr Editors, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022 Some viewers bristled at its preachy revisionism while others simply couldn't be bothered to turn out for what was, by one count, the fourth attempt to reboot James Cameron's franchise. Grayson Quay, The Week, 1 June 2022 Holocaust revisionism became an obsession later in life. James Mcauley, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1903, in the meaning defined at sense 1