Dictionary entry

Reviviscence

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Rev′i‐vis″cence (?), Rev′i‐vis″cen‐cy (?), } n. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.

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. Coleridge.