Revival vs Pentecost - What's the difference?
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The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, such as drama or literature.
Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal.
Revivification, as of a metal.
A Jewish festival (also known as Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks) seven weeks after the feast of Firstfruits or Yom Habikkurim, originally a harvest festival but, since the destruction of the Temple, also commemorating the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai. [See for further information on, and chronology of, these feasts.]
* 1611: Bible, King James version, Acts of the Apostles 2:1 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
* 1854:' Walter Farquhar Hook, ''A Church Dictionary'' - The first lesson for the morning contains the law of the Jewish ' Pentecost , or Feast of Weeks, which was a type of ours.
* 2005:' Alfred J Kolatch, ''A Handbook for the Jewish Home'' - Because Shavuot is celebrated on the fiftieth day after the advent of Passover, it has been called ' Pentecost , a Greek word meaning “fiftieth [day]".
The particular (Jewish) Pentecost 49 days (inclusive) after the resurrection of Jesus on the (Jewish) Day of First Fruits, when (in Christian teaching) the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles with miraculous effects including the ability to explain the Gospel intelligibly in languages they did not know; or a similar occasion since.
* 1762:' Voltaire, ''William Vade'' included in ''Works'' - He spoke either Latin or Welsh; and the Sicambri spoke the antient Teutonic. Remi, in all appearance, renewed the miracle of the '''Pentecost : ''Et unusquisquis intendebat linguam suam , And each understood his own language.
* 1786:' Joseph Priestley, ''An History of Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ: Compiled from Original Writers; Proving that the Christian Church was at first Unitarian'' - If it be supposed that the divinity of Christ was unknown to the apostles till the day of ' Pentecost ... we have no account of any such discovery having been made.
* 2005:' Frank J Lechner, John Boli, ''World Culture: Origins and Consequences'' - They think a new ' Pentecost is afoot, in which the Holy Spirit brings millions the good news of salvation in the hereafter and real blessings in the here and now.
Christian festival (also known as Whitsun or Whitsunday), which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles (see above definition).
* 1797:' Richard Burn, Simon Fraser, ''Ecclesiastical Law'' - Spiritual profits, commonly called whitsun-farthings, ... offered at the time of ' pentecost .
* 2005:' Edward Kessler, Neil Wenborn (editors), ''A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations'' - Shavuot is linked to Passover in the same way that ' Pentecost is linked to Easter, by a period of seven weeks.
* 2006:' Alister E McGrath, ''Christianity: An Introduction'' - The specific event which is commemorated at ' Pentecost is the coming of the Holy Spirit, which is described in the Acts of the Apostles.
Pentecostal manifestation, such as in a church service.
As a noun revival
is the act of reviving, or the state of being revived.As a proper noun pentecost is
a jewish festival (also known as shavuot, the feast of weeks) seven weeks after the feast of firstfruits or yom habikkurim, originally a harvest festival but, since the destruction of the temple, also commemorating the anniversary of the giving of the ten commandments to moses and the israelites at mount sinai [see for further information on, and chronology of, these feasts].revival
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(en noun)- the revival of hot pants
- the revival''' of a debt barred by limitation; the '''revival of a revoked will