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revival
/ɹɪˈvaɪvəl/
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What does revival mean?
noun
- The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
- Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
- Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of culture, commerce, agriculture.
More meanings (6)
noun
- Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
- Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
- A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
- Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.
- Revivification, as of a metal.
- Type of sequence on TV media with the objective to end a cancelled production.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪˈvaɪvəl/
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This is really a revival of the old Roman idea of the patron under whose protection the new-made freedman was put.
Doctor Manette received such patients here as his old reputation, and its revival in the floating whispers of his story, brought him.
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Another was that it was much pleasanter to be ill than to be forced to attend and take part in those revival meetings.
Thus in each case an Indian religious revival or craze, though more or less threatening to the invader, was of distinctively alien origin.
A revival of the footfault fiend, who desires to handicap the server, is international in character and, like the poor, "always with us."