different between revival vs reparation

English

Etymology

revive +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???va?v?l/
• Rhymes: -a?v?l
• Hyphenation: re?vi?val

Noun

revival (countable and uncountable, plural revivals)

1. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived
2. Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
3. Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, such as drama or literature.
4. Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
5. A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
6. Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
7. Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
8. Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.

   the revival of hot pants

9. Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.

   the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will

10. Revivification, as of a metal.

Derived terms

• devival
• revivalism
• revivalist

Translations

Spanish

Noun

revival m (plural revivales)

1. revival

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reparatio, reparationis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reparation (countable and uncountable, plural reparations)

1. (usually in the plural) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s).

   • I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.

2. (archaic) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.

   the reparation of a bridge or of a highway

   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

     The church at Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this, I used to go and read in the fields on Sunday.

Synonyms

• (a payment): restitution, compensation, amends, satisfaction
• (a renewing): restoration, repair

Related terms

• repair
• reparative

Translations

See also

• war reparations

Anagrams

• Praetorian, Prætorian, praetorian, prætorian

Swedish

Etymology

reparera +? -tion

Noun

reparation c

1. a repair (mending something broken)

Declension