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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The spirit or activities characteristic of religious revivals.
  • noun A desire or inclination to revive what belongs to an earlier time.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That form of religious activity which manifests itself in revivals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.

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  • noun The spiritual fervour of a religious revival

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith

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Examples

  • Twisted Sister reunites: Why '80s revivalism is a bad thing

    Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives 2002

  • These days, a working country artist can either move the genre forward into unrecognizability -- the course Nashville has chosen -- or backward into revivalism, which is what such retrosmarties as Gillian Welch or Jim Lauderdale or Dale Watson are up to.

    Hope For Our Country 2007

  • Like most currents of what we call "revivalism," it usually had an erotic side; and the larger temples frequently have attached to them female staffs of attendant votaries and _corps de ballet_ of very easy virtue.

    Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India Lionel D. Barnett

  • Mere common 'revivalism'! the critic will say, and it may be so.

    Regeneration Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • The First Great Awakening, the wave of Protestant evangelical revivalism that swept from England through the colonies from about 1730 to about 1760, was thoroughly infused with egalitarian ideology and formed part of the background to the American Revolution.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Glenn Beck and the Tea Party represent a very vocal minority, so worked up about the direction of our nation that they'll pour into Washington by the hundreds of thousands to worship at the feet of a religious revivalism rooted in nostalgia for a white-washed version of America that never was.

    Sally Kohn: One Nation March: Sometimes Size Doesn't Matter Sally Kohn 2010

  • Glenn Beck and the Tea Party represent a very vocal minority, so worked up about the direction of our nation that they'll pour into Washington by the hundreds of thousands to worship at the feet of a religious revivalism rooted in nostalgia for a white-washed version of America that never was.

    Sally Kohn: One Nation March: Sometimes Size Doesn't Matter Sally Kohn 2010

  • Glenn Beck and the Tea Party represent a very vocal minority, so worked up about the direction of our nation that they'll pour into Washington by the hundreds of thousands to worship at the feet of a religious revivalism rooted in nostalgia for a white-washed version of America that never was.

    Sally Kohn: One Nation March: Sometimes Size Doesn't Matter Sally Kohn 2010

  • Glenn Beck and the Tea Party represent a very vocal minority, so worked up about the direction of our nation that they'll pour into Washington by the hundreds of thousands to worship at the feet of a religious revivalism rooted in nostalgia for a white-washed version of America that never was.

    Sally Kohn: One Nation March: Sometimes Size Doesn't Matter Sally Kohn 2010

  • Glenn Beck and the Tea Party represent a very vocal minority, so worked up about the direction of our nation that they'll pour into Washington by the hundreds of thousands to worship at the feet of a religious revivalism rooted in nostalgia for a white-washed version of America that never was.

    Sally Kohn: One Nation March: Sometimes Size Doesn't Matter Sally Kohn 2010

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