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revivalism

noun

Etymology

From revival + -ism.

  1. derived from *gʷeyh₃-✻ — “to live”
  2. derived from revīvere
  3. derived from revivre — “to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew”
  4. derived from revivre
  5. derived from reviver
  6. inherited from reviven
  7. formed as revival — “revive + -al”
  8. suffixed as revivalism — “revival + ism”

Definitions

  1. Advocacy for the revival of a former practice, custom, etc.

    • Art Deco revivalism

  2. Spiritual fervour of or for a religious revival.

    • Neither the Revivalism that assails a boy at about the age of fifteen, nor the skepticism that meets him five years later, could sway him from his allegiance to the church into which he had been born.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA