Reviviscence
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Reviviscence is a noun meaning The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.
Meaning
The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.
More Meanings
- (religion) Revival; renewal of force, validity, or effect.
Example Sentences
But, what is still more serious, it goes apparently against the theological doctrine of the reviviscence of the Sacraments.
Reviviscence means that, when this person converts and abandons sin, he will receive the special grace of the sacrament that was conferred.
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.
Word Forms
- reviviscences
- reviviscency
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include revivification, revival, revivication, reviving, revalescence, reinvigoration.
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