revivalism

American  

[ri-vahy-vuh-liz-uhm] / rɪˈvaɪ vəˌlɪz əm /

noun

1. the form of religious activity that manifests itself in revivals.

2. the tendency to revive what belongs to the past.

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revivalism British  

/ rɪˈvaɪvəˌlɪzəm /

noun

1. a movement, esp an evangelical Christian one, that seeks to reawaken faith

2. the tendency or desire to revive former customs, styles, etc

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Etymology

Origin of revivalism

First recorded in 1805–15; revival + -ism

Example Sentences

Prior to the outbreak of Revivalism no one had supposed her particularly pious, and, indeed, she had often suffered Mrs. Mumbray's rebukes for levity of speech and indifference to the conventional norm of feminine behaviour.

From Denzil Quarrier by Gissing, George

Revivalism compared with Socialism, 26; an American production, 28.Ripley,

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey

In our day such epidemics are represented, though in tamer fashion, by Revivalism in its more noisy and extravagant eruptions.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

Thus the Oneida Community really issued from a conjunction between the Revivalism of Orthodoxy and the Socialism of Unitarianism.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey

So that not only since the war of 1812, but before the Revolution of 1776, we find Revivalism, as a system, strictly an American production.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey