Reviviscency

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reviviscence \Rev`i*vis"cence\, Reviviscency \Rev`i*vis"cen*cy\,
     n.
     The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal
     of life.
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           In this age we have a sort of reviviscence, not, I
           fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of
           the early times.                         --Coleridge.
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