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revivalism|rɪˈvaɪvəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. prec. + -ism.]
1. The state or form of religion characteristic of revivals. (Cf. prec. 3 b.)
1815in Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. (1826) II. 679, I verily believe that Revivalism has had this effect in some degree. 1859Stopford Work & Counter-work 37, I say, that hysteria, in connection with revivalism, is now commonly produced and propagated by man. 1883Pall Mall G. 8 Nov., Revivalism in general and American revivalism in particular, is desperately vulgar.
2. Tendency or desire to revive what has gone out of use or belongs to the past.
1874L. Stephen Hours in Library I. 245 However far the rage for revivalism may be pushed, nobody will ever want to revive the nineteenth century. 1876F. Harrison Choice Bks. (1886) 247 A whited sepulchre, where spruce revivalism is still scraping..the empty and ruined tombs. |