reviviscence

Also rev·i·vis·cen·cy

[rev-uh-vis-uhns]

noun

1. the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.

reviviscence

/ rɪˈvɪvɪsəns, ˌrɛvɪˈvɪsəns /

noun

1. rare,  restoration to life or animation; revival

Other Word Forms

• reviviscent adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of reviviscence¹

1620–30; < Latin revīvisc ( ere ) to come to life again ( re- re- + vīviscere, inchoative of vīvere to live) + -ence

Word History and Origins

Origin of reviviscence¹

C17: from Latin, from revīviscere come back to life, related to vīvere to live; see _revive

Example Sentences

But its fame was short-lived: it fell during the incursions of the Normans, and, unlike most others, seems to have possessed none of the phœnix-power of reviviscence.

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Reviviscence: coming back to life; awakening from hibernation.

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It may indeed be argued with apparent justness, that a principle of reviviscence may as well be admitted as a principle of production in the first instance: and as to rewards and punishments, judgement may be rendered, as well as now, by Beings less than Deities.

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In the sense of St. Paul, as of Plato and all other dynamic philosophers, flesh and blood is 'ipso facto' corruption, that is, the spirit of life in the mid or balancing state between fixation and reviviscence.

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Now, in this age, we have a sort of reviviscence,—not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times.

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