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.
   • Coleridge

     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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “reviviscence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)