reviviscence

[ 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

Derived Forms

• ˌreviˈviscent, adjective

Other Words From

• rev·i·vis·cent 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

Whether it were by reason of the cumulative influences of the continual references to the jug, or of that sense of reviviscence, that more alert energy, which the cool Southern nights always impart after the sultry summer days, the suggestion that they should go now and solve the mystery, and meet the dawn upon the summit of the bald, found instant acceptance, which it might not have secured in the stolid daylight.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Whether it were by reason of the cumulative influences of the continual references to the jug, or of that sense of reviviscence, that more alert energy, which the cool Southern nights always impart after the sultry summer days, the suggestion that they should go now and solve the mystery, and meet the dawn upon the summit of the bald, found instant acceptance, which it might not have secured in the stolid daylight.

From Project Gutenberg

Reviviscence: coming back to life; awakening from hibernation.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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