REVIVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revival mean? 

• REVIVAL (noun)
  The noun REVIVAL has 2 senses:

1. bringing again into activity and prominence

2. an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion

  Familiarity information: REVIVAL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVIVAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bringing again into activity and prominence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

resurgence; revitalisation; revitalization; revival; revivification

Context example:

the Gothic revival in architecture

Hypernyms ("revival" is a kind of...):

advance; betterment; improvement (a change for the better; progress in development)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "revival"):

rebirth; Renaissance; Renascence (the revival of learning and culture)

regeneration (the activity of spiritual or physical renewal)

resurrection (a revival from inactivity and disuse)

resuscitation (the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness)

Derivation:

revive (restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state)

revive (be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

revival; revival meeting

Hypernyms ("revival" is a kind of...):

mass meeting; rally (a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm)

 Context examples 

Thoughtfully, for I could not be here once more, and so near Agnes, without the revival of those regrets with which I had so long been occupied.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When they were gone, Elizabeth, as if intending to exasperate herself as much as possible against Mr. Darcy, chose for her employment the examination of all the letters which Jane had written to her since her being in Kent. They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any revival of past occurrences, or any communication of present suffering.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

With all these circumstances, recollections and feelings, she could not hear that Captain Wentworth's sister was likely to live at Kellynch without a revival of former pain; and many a stroll, and many a sigh, were necessary to dispel the agitation of the idea.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Jennings, though forced, on examination, to acknowledge a temporary revival, tried to keep her young friend from indulging a thought of its continuance;—and Elinor, conning over every injunction of distrust, told herself likewise not to hope.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Norris and her nieces were all well pleased with its revival, and an early day was named and agreed to, provided Mr. Crawford should be disengaged: the young ladies did not forget that stipulation, and though Mrs. Norris would willingly have answered for his being so, they would neither authorise the liberty nor run the risk; and at last, on a hint from Miss Bertram, Mr. Rushworth discovered that the properest thing to be done was for him to walk down to the Parsonage directly, and call on Mr. Crawford, and inquire whether Wednesday would suit him or not.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She was so unusually roused, that I was glad to compound for an affectionate hug, elicited by this revival in her mind of our old injuries, and to make the best I could of it, before Mr. Spenlow and the clerks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is something for a woman to be assured, in her eight-and-twentieth year, that she has not lost one charm of earlier youth; but the value of such homage was inexpressibly increased to Anne, by comparing it with former words, and feeling it to be the result, not the cause of a revival of his warm attachment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)