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reˈvivement Now rare.
[f. the vb. + -ment.]
1. The (or an) act of reviving; revival.
1611Cotgr., Remise, a restorall, reuiuement, recouerie, setting vp againe. 1637Feltham Lusoria, Lett. xvii. (1661) 84 We have the sacred Scriptures,..the purer Primitive Times, and the late Reformation, or Revivement rather, all on our side. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. ii. 54 It would be only a renovation and revivement of the memory of..antient sorrows.
1843For. Q. Rev. II. 351 The various and vaunted systems of Greece and Rome, and their modern German revivements and imitations.
2. A reviving or restoring influence.
1598–9E. Forde Parismus ii. (1661) 114 All this while his beloved Lady was his physician..whose presence was more revivement to him than any thing else. 1628Feltham Resolves i. xxiv, His with-drawings are our miseries; his presence is joy, and revivement. a1708Beveridge Priv. Th. i. (1730) 133 To lie down still and quiet, is a great Refreshment and Revivement to them. |