revivalismn.

1803 R. Reece Let. in T. P. Bunting Life of Jabez Bunting (1859) I. ix. 147 Revivalism will soon ruin Methodism.

1859 E. A. Stopford Work & Counterwork 37 I say, that hysteria, in connection with revivalism, is now commonly produced and propagated by man.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Nov. Revivalism in general and American revivalism in particular, is desperately vulgar.

1927 New Republic 21 Sept. 124/2 For ten years revivalism passed over the country like a forest fire—it is the revivalist's own figure.

1970 Redempt. Tidings 7 Feb. 7/2 Some aspects of revivalism are repugnant to one's sense of decorum.

2005 B. Milton-Edwards Islamic Fundamentalism since 1945 iii. 51 Islamic revivalism was apparent not only in increased religious observance of rites such as Ramadan..but was translated into political and social action.

1843 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 593 (heading) Architectural revivalism and Puginism.

1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 245 However far the rage for revivalism may be pushed, nobody will ever want to revive the nineteenth century.

1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 247 A whited sepulchre, where spruce revivalism is still scraping..the empty and ruined tombs.

1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism I. xii. 324 Perhaps Blore's staircase at Christchurch was the first effort of the attempt at Gothic revivalism.

1974 Guardian 27 Mar. 12/6 Bill Haley's return to London for yet another bout of rock and roll revivalism.

1994 Campus Canada Mar. 22/2 The Windsor trio The Tea Party has shown there is still a huge market niche for shameless '70s revivalism.