the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Revival
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
(2):
(n.) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
(3):
(n.) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.
(4):
(n.) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
(5):
(n.) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc.
(6):
(n.) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.
(7):
(n.) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
(8):
(n.) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; - applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
(9):
(n.) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Revival'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/revival.html. 1828.
