REVIVIFY • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Revivify

... straightforward style. Two or three causes may have [35] combined to favour the development of obscure writing. The theme of love with which the chanso dealt is a subject by no means inexhaustible; there was a continual struggle to revivify the well-worn tale by means of strange turns of expression, by the use of unusual adjectives and forced metaphor, by the discovery of difficult rimes (rimes cars) and stanza schemes of extraordinary complexity. Marcabrun asserts, ...

— The Troubadours • H.J. Chaytor