Definition of "vivification" []

• The giving of life; vitalization; animation. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Indeed, when we have gone as far as we please in denouncing shams, ridiculing men in buff-jerkins, and the whole Wardour Street business of gimcrack and Brummagem antiquities, it still remains true that Scott's great service was what we may call the vivification of history."
• "And because there is in it a communication of a new spiritual life, it is called a "vivification" or "quickening," with respect unto the state wherein all men are before this work is wrought in them and on them,"
• "Here again that process of "vivification," which has been so often dwelt on, makes an astonishing progress -- the blood and colour of the novel, which distinguish it from the more statuesque narrative, are supplied, if indirectly yet sufficiently and, in comparison with previous examples, amply."