revival

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.

2. 2

   Reanimation from a state of languor or depression

   Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.

   • It is hard to sell a democratic partnership of nations from a stall that only stocks Conservative governments. Unionism needs a Labour revival in England.
3. 3

   Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of…

   Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of culture, commerce, agriculture.

   • post-punk revival
   • But then, this isn’t even the first time these genres are back, back, back. As DJ Ben UFO says: “There have been ‘jungle revivals’ regularly for at least as long as I’ve been DJing.”
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   1. 4

      Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.

      • the revival of hot pants
   2. 5

      Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline

      Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.

      • As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.
      • This book offers a view into a growing movement of Islamic revival as it is taking place in the small, historically Hindu kingdom of Nepal on the northern Himalayan edge of the Indian subcontinent.
      • While masturbation was never favored in Judeo-Christian tradition, Victorian morality, along with the Great Awakening and other religious revivals in America, created a perfect storm for people to really get obsessed with it.
   3. 6

      Restoration of force, validity, or effect

      Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.

      • the revival of a debt barred by limitation
      • the revival of a revoked will
   4. 7

      Revivification, as of a metal.

   5. 8

      Type of sequence on TV media with the objective to end a cancelled production.

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