reviviscence
English
Alternative forms
- reviviscency
Noun
reviviscence (countable and uncountable, plural reviviscences)
- 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.
- 25 June, 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)