re-animation

See also: reanimation, Reanimation, and réanimation

English

Noun

re-animation (countable and uncountable, plural re-animations)

1. Alternative form of reanimation.
   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, pages 77–78:

     It was a most delightful re-animation of exhausted spirits.

   • 1816, William Balfour, “Case XXX”, in Observations, with Cases Illustrative of a New, Simple, and Expeditious Mode, of Curing Rheumatism and Sprains, Without in the Least Debilitating the System, Edinburgh: […] J. & C. Muirhead, for Adam Black, […], page 211:

     Lightness and cheerfulness of spirits, with re-animation of countenance, immediately succeeded.

   • 2022 July 1, Ben Shapiro, “Roe v. Wade is history, but the abortion debate reveals rot”, in The Marshall News Messenger, volume 143, number 208, Marshall, Tex., page 4A:

     Yet Democrats and the media seem firmly convinced that the re-animation of abortion as a state law issue will somehow translate into 2022 electoral victory.