revivification
revivification noun: the act of reviving; restoration of life.
Noun
revivification (countable and uncountable, plural revivifications)
- The act of reviving; restoration of life.
- Fir-cones and snakes from their very forms were emblems of male fertility; snakes, too, from their habit of gliding out of their own skins with renewed brightness and color were suggestive of resurrection and re-vivification; pigs and sows by their exceeding fruitfulness would in their hour of...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73
- The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
- I have often beheld as a miracle, that artificiall resurrection and revivification of Mercury, how being mortified into a thousand shapes, it assumes again its owne, and returns to its numericall selfe.1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
Forms of revivification
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Origin of revivification
Originally from Latin revīvificāt- (past participial stem of revīvificō (“revivify”)) + -ion. In later use, from revivify (see -fication). Compare later revivificate, Latin revīvificātiō (1567 in a British source), and French révivification. By surface analysis, re- (“again, anew”) + vivification (“giving of life”).
Questions about revivification
- What does revivification mean?
- Revivification means the act of reviving; restoration of life.
- What part of speech is revivification?
- Revivification is a noun.
- What is the plural of revivification?
- The plural of revivification is revivifications.
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