reviviscence

English

Alternative forms

• reviviscency

Noun

reviviscence (countable and uncountable, plural reviviscences)

1. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.
   • 25 June, 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

     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.

2. (religion) Revival; renewal of force, validity, or effect.
   • 1910, Pierre Pourrat, Theology of the Sacraments: A Study in Positive Theology, page 190:

     But, what is still more serious, it goes apparently against the theological doctrine of the reviviscence of the Sacraments.

   • 2021, Jose Granados, Introduction to Sacramental Theology, page 293:

     Reviviscence means that, when this person converts and abandons sin, he will receive the special grace of the sacrament that was conferred.