revival

1. (religion) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.Examples: "As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions."; "This book offers a view into a growing movement of Islamic revival as it is taking place in the small, historically Hindu kingdom of Nepal on the northern Himalayan edge of the Indian subcontinent."; "While masturbation was never favored in Judeo-Christian tradition, Victorian morality, along with the Great Awakening and other religious revivals in America, created a perfect storm for people to really get obsessed with it."countableuncountable

2. (religion) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.countableuncountable

3. (law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.Examples: "the revival of a debt barred by limitation"; "the revival of a revoked will"countableuncountable

4. (chemistry) Revivification, as of a metal.countableuncountable