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redivivus

American  
[red-uh-vahy-vuhs, -vee-] / ˌrɛd əˈvaɪ vəs, -ˈvi- /

adjective

  1. living again; revived.


redivivus British  
/ ˌrɛdɪˈvaɪvəs /

adjective

  1. rare returned to life; revived

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of redivivus

First recorded in 1645–55, redivivus is from the Latin word redivīvus renewed, renovated


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Sing the lists—the trampled stage of the Nora Bayes Theatre—Ashby de la Zouch redivivus!

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But occasionally friends, and even viewers will catch a sudden, instantly covered vulnerability, an intimation that all is not Happy Hotpoint redivivus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smiley, the cerebral sleuth, may be as corpulent as Nero Wolfe, but in this adventure he is suddenly Sherlock Holmes redivivus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bond redivivus has been entrusted to John Gardner, a British writer who knows his way around military hardware, neo-villainy and a plot whose absurdity even Ian Fleming might admire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, on this night present she lives as in the past; almost fancies herself back at Cheltenham in its days of splendour, and dancing with the “first gentleman in Europe” redivivus.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

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