Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being revivable; the capacity for being revived.
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- noun The state of being
revivable
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Examples
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After an instructive discourse by the chairman, a magnificent oration eloquently and forcibly expressed, a most interesting and instructive discussion of the usual high standard of excellence ensued as to the desirability of the revivability of the ancient games and sports of our ancient Panceltic forefathers.
Ulysses 2003
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By "emotional memory" is meant the spontaneous or voluntary revivability of the image, olfactory or other.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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Monday's performance brought another new line-up to Verdi's masterpiece, slightly lowering the emotional temperature but proving again the enduring revivability of Richard Eyre's production, now 18 years old but still looking handsome.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph John Allison 2012
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_associability_ and _revivability_ rather than to mere inherent and perpetual physiological _record making_.
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a most interesting and instructive discussion of the usual high standard of excellence ensued as to the desirability of the revivability of the ancient games and sports of our ancient Panceltic forefathers.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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