What is another word for revivalism?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪvˈa͡ɪvəlˌɪzəm] (IPA)

Revivalism refers to the act or process of reviving or revitalizing something that has declined or become dormant. Synonyms for the word revivalism include rejuvenation, renewal, restoration, renaissance, rebirth, resuscitation, and resurgence. Each of these synonyms conveys the idea of bringing something back to life or renewing its vigor and vitality. Rejuvenation implies a process of regaining youthfulness or energy, while renewal suggests a process of updating or refreshing. Restoration and resuscitation imply the repair or rescue of something that has been damaged or weakened. The terms renaissance and rebirth denote a cultural or spiritual awakening, while resurgence implies a sudden and dramatic comeback.

What are the hypernyms for Revivalism?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    Christian revivalism, religious movements, religious revivals.

What are the hyponyms for Revivalism?

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Usage examples for Revivalism

The ground covered ranges from the primitive culture stage to present-day revivalism and mysticism.
"A Grammar of Freethought"
Chapman Cohen
Not only was it preceded by numerous sporadic outbursts of religious revivalism which sometimes took the shape of opposition to the dominant form of Christianity, though it is true they generally shaded off into mere movements of independent Catholicism within the Church; but there were in addition at least two distinct religious movements which led up to it, while much which, under the reformers of the sixteenth century, appears as a distinct and separate theology, is traceable in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the mystical movement connected with the names of Meister Eckhart and Tauler.
"German Culture Past and Present"
Ernest Belfort Bax
He seemed to guess at her thought; for he passed on to describe the events by which, amid his own dumb or hidden struggle, he had become aware of the same forces working all round him; among the more intelligent and quick-witted miners, hungry for history and science, reading voraciously a Socialist and anti-Christian literature, yet all the while cherishing deep at heart certain primitive superstitions, and falling periodically into hot abysses of revivalism, under the influence of Welsh preachers; or among the young men of the small middle class, in whom a better education was beginning to awaken a number of new intellectual and religious wants; among women, too, sensitive, intelligent women- "Ah!
"The Case of Richard Meynell"
Mrs. Humphrey Ward

Famous quotes with Revivalism

  • nativism, revivalism, revitalization, and messianism. All are deliberate efforts to erect a better culture out of the defeat or decay of an older one.Their lands appropriated, their social system ripped apart, their customs suppressed, and their holy places profanedinevitably defeated by the superior firepower and technology of the Whites.the ground was prepared forthe return of the good old days.
    Peter Farb

Related words: religious revivalism, the second great awakening, spiritual awakening, evangelism, great awakening

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