\Re*viv"al\, n. [From {Revive}.]
The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
Specifically:
(a) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or
    literature.
(b) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the
    drama and literature.
(c) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and
    decline; a period of religious awakening; special
    religious interest.
(d) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; --
    applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
(e) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of
    something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
(f) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a
    fashion.
(g) (Law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal;
    as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the
    revival of a revoked will, etc.
(h) Revivification, as of a metal. See {Revivification}, 2.