revival

Etymology

From revive +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvaɪvəl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvəl
• Hyphenation: re‧vi‧val

Noun

revival (countable and uncountable, plural revivals)

1. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
2. Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
   • 2021 April 20, Rafael Behr, “The future of the United Kingdom depends on a Labour revival in England”, in The Guardian‎:

     It is hard to sell a democratic partnership of nations from a stall that only stocks Conservative governments. Unionism needs a Labour revival in England.

3. Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of culture, commerce, agriculture.

   post-punk revival

   • 2002 December 30, Anthony Tommasini, “A Seducer In a Revival Of a Revival”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The Met's recent revival of Jürgen Flimm's powerful production of Beethoven's “Fidelio,” another highlight of the 2000-1 season, was a similar letdown. But revivals of great productions don't always have to be disappointments, as the Met's current presentation of Poulenc's “Dialogues des Carmélites” makes clear.

   • 2021 June 16, Joe Muggs, quoting Ben UFO, “Subwoofers at the ready! The jungle and drum’n’bass revival is upon us”, in The Guardian‎:

     But then, this isn’t even the first time these genres are back, back, back. As DJ Ben UFO says: “There have been ‘jungle revivals’ regularly for at least as long as I’ve been DJing.”

   • 2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 48:

     After crossing the flatlands Lincoln, with its magnificent hilltop cathedral, comes into view before we pull into the station, with its lovely Tudor revival-style buildings.

4. Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.

   the revival of hot pants

   • 2022 January 12, John Ortved, quoting Kat Frey, “That Cloud of Smoke Is Not a Mirage”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Kat Frey, a 25-year-old copywriter who lives in Brooklyn, picked up the habit last year. “We’re having a very sexy and ethereal 1980s revival, and smoking is part of that,” she said. “A lot of people I know are posting pictures doing it. I’m doing it. It’s having its moment for sure.”

5. (religion) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
   • 2006, Michael P. Young, Bearing Witness Against Sin:

     As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.

   • 2012, Megan Adamson Sijapati, Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation‎, Routledge, →ISBN:

     This book offers a view into a growing movement of Islamic revival as it is taking place in the small, historically Hindu kingdom of Nepal on the northern Himalayan edge of the Indian subcontinent.

   1. (Christianity) A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
6. (law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.

   the revival of a debt barred by limitation

   the revival of a revoked will

7. (chemistry) Revivification, as of a metal.

Noun

revival m (plural revivaux)

1. revival

Further reading

• “revival”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.