Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The renewal of youth or youthful strength.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A growing green or fresh again; renewal of youth or vigor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A growing
green orfresh again;renewal ofyouth orvigour .
Etymologies
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Latin revirescens, present participle of revirescere to grow green again.
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Examples
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It is observable that those few and faint traces which we have noticed in this play of a faded archaic style trying as it were to resume a mockery of revirescence are not wholly even if mainly confined to the underplot which a suggestion or surmise of Mr. Collier's long since assigned to
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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