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Revivification

Definition: Revivification

Revivification

Noun

1. The coming again into activity and prominence; "the revival of trade"; "a revival of a neglected play by Moliere"; "the Gothic revival in architecture".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "revivification" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references)


Synonyms: Revivification

Synonyms: resurgence (n), revitalisation (n), revitalization (n), revival (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Revivification

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Life

Vivification; vital force; vitalization; revivification; Prometheus; life to come. (destiny).

Reproduction

Palingenesis, revivification; apotheosis; resuscitation, reanimation, resurrection, reappearance; regrowth; Phoenix.

Restoration

Noun: restoration, restoral; reinstatement, replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution, reconstruction; reproduction; renovation, renewal; revival, revivessence, reviviscence; refreshment; resuscitation, reanimation, revivification, reviction; Phenix; reorganization.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Revivification

Non-English Usage: "Revivification" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (revivification).

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Use in Literature: Revivification

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

This revivification of a corpse is surprising.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Revivification

"Revivification" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Revivification" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Revivification

Language Translations for "revivification"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ringjallje (reappearance, regeneration, renaissance, renascence, resurrection, revival), rigjenerim (recovery, recuperation, regeneration, reproduction). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الانتعاش. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съживяване (renascense, renewal, renovation, resurgence, resurrection, revival), възстановяване (instauration, mending, reconstruction, recovery, recruitment, refund, reinstatement, renewal, renovation, repair, replacement, restitution, restoration, retrieval). (various references)

   

French

  

revivification. (various references)

   

German

  

Wiederaufleben (reawaken, reawakening, rekindle, resurgence, revival, revive, reviviscence, to rekindle). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναζωογόνηση (animation, reanimation, resuscitation, revitalization, revival). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

újraélesztés. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evivificationray

   

Portuguese

  

revivificação. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

reînviorare, reînsufleţire. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

возвращение к жизни. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oživljavanje, dovođenje u prvobitno stanje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

revivificación. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förnyelse (innovation, renewal, renovation), återuppväckning. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

реактивація (reactivation), відродження (reappearance, rebirth, regeneration, renaissance, renascence, resurgence, revival, second born), оживлення (reanimation, resuscitation, vitalization). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự làm sống lại (resurrection, resuscitation, revival), sự làm khoẻ mạnh lại, sự làm hoạt động lại, sự hồi sinh sự phục hồi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Revivification

Derivations

Words beginning with "revivification": revivifications. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Revivification"

Words rhyming with "revivification" (pronounced 'Re*viv`i*fi*ca"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Revivification

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-i-n-o-r-t-v-v"

-2 letters: verification, vivification.

-3 letters: reification.

-4 letters: vociferant.

-5 letters: fornicate, fricative.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-i-n-o-r-t-v-v"
 

+1 letter: revivifications.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Revivification


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 76 69 76 69 66 69 63 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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