revivifying

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Anne Rice, meanwhile, was revivifying the Gothic horror tale with stories of vampires.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2021

Miranda’s rap-sodic historical epic may not save the soul of a battered republic, but its consolations are real, its pleasures revivifying, its emotional force galvanic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2020

But after entropy, narcissism and spiritual decay comes revivifying destruction.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2020

I recently saw a production of “Sense and Sensibility” by the Bedlam theater company, which injected Austen’s calm certainties with a revivifying dose of mad improvisation and physicality.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2016

No one who studies the religious question in Japan at all can fail to notice the extraordinary revivifying of Buddhism for what it feels to be a life and death struggle with an alien faith.

From Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Bacon, Alice Mabel