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Example sentences for "revival"

Lexicographically close words:
revisiting; revisits; revitalize; revitalized; revitalizing; revivalism; revivalist; revivalists; revivals; revive
  1. It was a revival of the Norfolk Club, and met three times a year in Norwich, namely, in the Summer Assize week, in the Michaelmas Sessions week, and in the Easter Sessions week.

  2. My little sister was taken to a revival meeting in the old church in St. Anthony.

  3. But, during the same revival and while it was at white heat, old Squire Geo.

  4. There was a great revival in the First Methodist Church on the East Side, J.

  5. He it was who organized the Gaelic League, a band of enthusiasts zealous for the revival of the Irish language both as a spoken tongue and as the medium for a national literature, and eager, also, to breed up a race of Celtic scholars.

  6. Not the least important work of the Irish Literary Revival has been done by translators, who have put into English the old Gaelic romances and the folklore still current among the little remnant of Irish-speaking country folk.

  7. Movements, like individuals, have their ancestry, and that of the Irish Literary Revival is easily traced.

  8. In the Attis initiation the proof that the candidate has successfully passed the test is afforded by the revival of the god--in the Grail romances the proof lies in the healing of the Fisher King.

  9. Recognized as representing Death and Revival of Vegetation Deity.

  10. In any case it is clear that the successful issue of the test of initiation was dependent upon the resurrection and revival of the god.

  11. While this distinctly implies the revival of vegetable and animal life, those features (i.

  12. The signification of the resuscitation ceremony is obscured in cases where the same figure undergoes death and revival without any corresponding change of form.

  13. Since its revival in 1905 the Proportional Representation Society has continued to press the claims of the single transferable vote, and with some success.

  14. A convinced adherent of proportional representation, he stimulated the revival of the Society established to promote it.

  15. If we are to remain among the living there must be a perpetual revival of youth within us, brought about by inward change and by love of the Platonic sort.

  16. The revival of an image so dead and so forgotten set me thinking.

  17. In the last half of the 19th century there was a great revival of change-ringing, leading to improvements in belfries and in ringers, and to their gradual recognition as church workers.

  18. This modern literary Bengali arose early in the 19th century, as a child of the revival of Sanskrit learning in Calcutta, under the influence of the college founded by the English in Fort William.

  19. He founded a school of poets who wrote hymns in honour of Krishna, many of whom, in later times, became connected with the religious revival instituted by Caitanya in the early part of the 16th century.

  20. The first of these movements arose during the Carolingian revival (c.

  21. The revival of change-ringing in recent years has produced many manuals: e.

  22. Give two reasons for the revival of English colonial enterprises.

  23. Almost at once there was a great revival of interest in colonization, and the new government interfered vigorously in colonial affairs.

  24. So the crafty old King bided his time, dropping a quiet hint to young Henry in England that a moment might be approaching favourable to an English attack on France, in revival of the ancient claim to the crown, or at any rate to Guienne.

  25. The recent revival of learning had developed a scepticism which was however habitually accompanied by a decent profession of orthodoxy.

  26. The revival of interest in the classics caused some attention to be paid to the Roman drama; and hence Italy led the way--as in all things literary--in producing imitations of the plays then known.

  27. Sidenote: Learning and letters] Practically it is only in the beginnings of an educational revival that we find promise of the dawn of a new order.

  28. Netherlands into a separate sovereignty under the Infanta Isabella and the Austrian Archduke Albert to whom she was betrothed: he had thus made possible for England a revival of the old-time Burgundian alliance independent of Spain.

  29. Every prominent leader of the Reformation party who had not elected to conform was either dead or doomed or in exile within a twelve-month of the revival of the Heresy acts.

  30. Religion and Philosophy, the two best gifts of Heaven, set up in opposition to each other at the revival of letters; and never did competing tradesmen more grossly misbehave.

  31. As if to prepare our minds for this desirable and inevitable consummation, different parties have been favored with a revival of that very spirit of revelation by which the Church itself was originally founded.

  32. I end with the answer which I myself gave to the application: its revival may possibly save me from a repetition of the like.

  33. The man in whom above all others the literary revival of the 18th century was most conspicuously embodied was Giuseppe Parini.

  34. It is known that the Platonic academy endeavoured to promote, with regard to art, a second and a more exalted revival of antiquity.

  35. Its revival belonged to the following age.

  36. This work marked an era in studies preparatory to the revival of classical learning.

  37. It is said that cattle, sick and harried with the voyage across the Atlantic, will show signs of revival as they sniff the first land breezes laden with the breath of the clover fields.

  38. But as the voice of Old Testament prophecy ceased, with its last breath it foretold that it would be followed, in the after time, by a new and glorious revival of the noblest traditions of the prophetic office.

  39. The notable revival which broke out at Kirk o' Shotts was due, under God, to Livingston congratulating the people that drops of rain alone were falling, and not the fire of Divine wrath.

  40. He went to Dublin next day, but was recalled by a telegram saying that a great revival had broken out.

  41. The revival began in that invalid's room.

  42. If they did, the revival would come at once.

  43. Prayer is omnipotent; and, if we would see the kingdom of Christ come speedily in the world, we must have a great revival of prevailing prayer.

  44. Never was there such great need for a mighty, Pentecostal revival in all our Churches; and the key to such a revival is earnest personal work.

  45. In the Life of Mr. Finney it is related that, during a revival at Rome, New York, the air seemed surcharged with Divine power.

  46. Then came Pentecost and a revival that brought thousands into the kingdom.

  47. Hence what is termed revival might, with more aptitude of expression, be called the re-discovery.

  48. The revival of ancient literature and the birth of new art were simultaneous.

  49. And it is in this very way that if we would have a revival of earnest religion, we must set about obtaining it.

  50. Then the first steps towards revival and communion must be the forsaking of these sins, and of ways of life that prepare the way for them.

  51. Thus did Samuel seek to promote repentance and revival among his people, and to prepare the way for a return of God's favour.

  52. The revival of letters by the energy of Christian ecclesiastics and laymen, when everything had to be done, reminds us of the birth of Christianity itself, as far as a work of man can resemble a work of God.

  53. There was a marked revival of the study of law as a result of the creation of law colleges and court lawyers soon became numerous and powerful.

  54. Nevertheless, in the very face of the ascendancy of the Roman hierarchy and notwithstanding the spiritual revival within the Church, there appeared a vast amount of heresy, of irreverence, and of independence.

  55. The comparatively recent revival of interest in Church history has given birth to many general Church histories from English and American scholars.

  56. During the summer these two churches held revival (and rival) services every night and Sunday for three or four weeks, at which there was a great awakening and a large ingathering of souls to the flock.

  57. On these occasions there is as much shouting, singing, groaning, moaning and praying as there is in their revival meetings.

  58. Kate Marcy got up from the chair with an energy they had not thought her to possess, a revival of the spirit which had upheld her when she had contended, singly, with a remorseless world.

  59. In short, it was a pernicious revival of an obsolete state of affairs, competition, and if persisted in, involved nothing less than a fight to a finish with the army, the lobby of the Northeastern.

  60. This conviction, this grace, this faith to embark on the experiment accomplishes of itself the revival of the will, the rebirth which we had thought impossible.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revival" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodation; adaptation; adjustment; advance; advancement; alteration; amelioration; amendment; animation; apostasy; ascent; betterment; bibliolatry; boost; bracer; break; church; conversion; copy; cordial; defection; degeneration; deterioration; deviation; devotions; difference; discontinuity; divergence; diversification; diversion; diversity; duplication; duty; energizing; enhancement; enrichment; evensong; exhilaration; fanaticism; fitting; furtherance; headway; imitation; improvement; lift; liturgy; matins; meeting; memory; mend; mending; mitigation; modification; modulation; novena; office; overthrow; pickup; prayer; preferment; prime; progress; progression; promotion; qualification; quickening; rally; ransom; realignment; rebirth; rebuilding; recapture; reclamation; recollection; reconstruction; recoup; recovery; recreation; recrudescence; recuperation; redemption; refection; reform; reformation; refreshment; regeneration; reissue; rejuvenation; remaking; remembrance; reminiscence; renascence; renewal; renovation; reorganization; repetition; replevin; restoration; resumption; resurgence; resurrection; retake; retrieval; retrospection; reversal; revision; revival; revolution; rise; salvage; service; shift; stimulation; switch; tonic; transition; turn; upheaval; uplift; variation; variety; vesper; vigil; worsening; zeal; zealotry