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Revival   /rɪvˈaɪvəl/  /rivˈaɪvəl/   Listen
noun
Revival  n.  The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically:
(a)
Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
(b)
Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.
(c)
Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
(d)
Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
(e)
Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
(f)
Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
(g)
(Law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc.
(h)
Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.






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"Revival" Quotes from Famous Books



... when his son entered the room, and they shook hands. There was a certain air of concentration about both, as if they each intended to say more than they had ever said before. The coffee was duly brought. This was a revival of an old custom. In bygone days Jack had frequently come in thus, and they had taken coffee before going together in Sir John's carriage to one of the great social functions at which their presence was almost a necessity. Jack had always ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman

... York's playhouse; and there saw, the first time acted, "The Queene of Aragon," [A tragi-comedy, by William Habington. Upon its revival, the prologue and epilogue were written by Butler, the author of Hudibras.] an old Blackfriars' play, but an admirable one, so good that I am astonished at it, and wonder where it hath lain asleep all this while that I have never ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys

... late countess, who was an exceedingly religious woman, it had been in agitation to devote Natalie to a religious life; but when the general became a widower, nothing more had been heard of the plan. It now almost seemed as if its revival and contemplated execution were in some way consequent on the strange incident at the ball. The matter, however, was far too delicate for any one to question concerning it those who alone could have given information. At the appointed ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various

... Gig[)a]ge[)i], the Red Bead, invoking blessings upon his client and clothing him with the red garments of success. The formula is repeated in a low chant or intonation, the voice rising at intervals, after the manner of a revival speaker. Then turning to the black bead in his left hand he addresses it in similar manner, calling down the most withering curses upon the head of the victim. Finally looking up he addresses the stream, under the ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... With the revival of classical learning in the Renaissance, geographical theories also became less wildly imaginative than in the medieval period, the charts of which, though beautifully colored and highly decorated with fauna ...
— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott


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