Revival
[rɪ'vaɪv(ə)l] or [rɪ'vaɪvl]
Definition
(noun.) bringing again into activity and prominence; 'the revival of trade'; 'a revival of a neglected play by Moliere'; 'the Gothic revival in architecture'.
(noun.) an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion.
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Definition
(n.) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
(n.) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
(n.) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.
(n.) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
(n.) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
(n.) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
(n.) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
(n.) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc.
(n.) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream you attend a religious revival, foretells family disturbances and unprofitable engagements. If you take a part in it, you will incur the displeasure of friends by your contrary ways. See Religion.
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Examples
- That first revival seemed like the flicker of a dying lamp. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We cannot foretell the scope and power of such a revival; we cannot even produce evidence of its onset. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I need no revival of my spirits from the effects of this wretched place to tell you so plain a fact, and one that you know so well. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- From the twelfth century onward, with the increase of trade, there was a great revival of town life throughout Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 1169 a Kurdish adventurer, named Saladin, became ruler of Egypt, in which country the Shiite heresy had now fallen before a Sunnite revival. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thoughtfully, for I could not be here once more, and so near Agnes, without the revival of those regrets with which I had so long been occupied. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Doctor Manette received such patients here as his old reputation, and its revival in the floating whispers of his story, brought him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Printing from wood blocks began about the same time as tea-drinking, and with the seventh century came a remarkable revival of poetry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That hope for the revival of trade must utterly be given up. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- To some extent it was a revival of the old Menlo Park days (or, rather, nights). Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- From the beginning of the revival there were protests, and they grew. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At a glance he knew that Raffles was not in the sleep which brings revival, but in the sleep which streams deeper and deeper into the gulf of death. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- With the invention of coke came also the revival of cast iron. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We have an unconscious revival of the defects of the Platonic scheme (ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was preoccupied with the revival of Roman ascendancy on earth, which it conceived of as its inheritance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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