Re*viv"al (?), n. [From Revive.] The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically: (a) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature . (b) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature . (c) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest . (d) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like . (e) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture . (f) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion . (g) Law Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc. (h) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.
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