vivification

But those who hope it signals a vivification of the Act might want to temper their optimism.

Henry James, in his commentaries on Ibsen, insightfully noted the “extraordinary process of vivification” that takes place when the playwright’s seemingly prosaic prose dramas are enacted.

Spirit, perhaps, or joy; maybe what Abbott called “vivification of the visual image, the warm human quality of imagination added”.

Magical transformations, the vengeance of witches, the vivification of waterskins—one tale comes crowding after another, real and vivid, with the most alarming and the most amusing details.

It was thus received in the early cosmogonies, in all of which the vivification of the Mundane Egg constituted the act of creation; from it sprang the world resplendent in glory and teeming with life.