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reviviscences

reviviscences is the plural of reviviscence.

Meaning of reviviscence

Noun

reviviscence (countable and uncountable, plural reviviscences)

  1. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.
    • 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.
  2. Revival; renewal of force, validity, or effect.
    • But, what is still more serious, it goes apparently against the theological doctrine of the reviviscence of the Sacraments.1910, Pierre Pourrat, Theology of the Sacraments: A Study in Positive Theology, page 190

Questions about reviviscences

What is reviviscences the plural of?
Reviviscences is the plural of reviviscence.

Words near reviviscences in the dictionary

  1. revivifying
  2. reviving
  3. revivingly
  4. revivings
  5. reviviscence
  6. reviviscences
  7. reviviscency
  8. reviviscent
  9. revivor
  10. revivors
  11. Revlon

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