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Reviviscency

Reviviscence \Rev`i*vis"cence\, Reviviscency \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.