revival

Meaning

Noun

• The act of reviving, or the state of being revived
• Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
• Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, such as drama or literature.
• Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
• A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
• Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
• Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
• Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
• Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.
• Revivification, as of a metal.

Origin

• From revive + -al.