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Answer for the clue "The activity of giving vitality and vigour to something ", 12 letters:
vivification

Word definitions for vivification in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The giving of life; vitalization; animation.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vivification \Viv`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. vivificatio: cf. vivification.] The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival. --Bacon. (Physiol.) One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous [syn: animation , spiritedness , invigoration , brio ] the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something [syn: invigoration , animation ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vivification is an operation on a description logic knowledge base to improve performance of a semantic reasoner . Vivification replaces a disjunction of concepts C ⊔ C … ⊔ C by the least common subsumer of the concepts C , C , … C . The goal of this operation ...

Usage examples of vivification.

Whatever may have been the case in years gone by, the true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and to common lives, endowing them with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to real things only.