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resurgent, n. and a.|rɪˈsɜːdʒənt|
[ad. L. resurgent-em, pres. pple. of resurgĕre to resurge.]
A. n.
1. One who has risen again.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 411 We, who are alive, shall be caught up in the clouds together with the resurgents. 1808Syd. Smith Wks. (1850) 114/1 Scarcely a day elapsed in which the degraded resurgent did not appear before the European. 1875Kinglake Crimea V. vi. xvi. 156 The resurgents on their part, whilst sheering off by the flanks, took care to give no offence.
2. = resurgence 2. Also attrib.
1965B. E. Freeman tr. Vandel's Biospeleol. i. 12 The outlets of large underground rivers are termed resurgents. 1972Herak & Stringfield Karst xiii. 435 Resurgent caves..are associated with the uprising of water around the flanks of the Mendips.
B. adj.
1. That rises, or tends to rise, again.
1808Syd. Smith Wks. (1850) 119/2 To extinguish, if possible, that resurgent principle which has so often disturbed the serious business of the country. 1854Tait's Mag. XXI. 490 Resurgent Poland, he says, means resurgent Hungary, and even resurgent Italy. 1878Dowden Stud. Lit. 241 The strife is not ended, the pain may still be resurgent.
2. Geol. Applied to steam and other gases which after being absorbed by volcanic magma from groundwater and native rock are subsequently released into the atmosphere.
1908R. A. Daly in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CLXXVI. 48 These fluids were deposited and buried in the strata. They have been resurrected in their activity. They have ‘risen again’, both literally and figuratively; they may be called ‘resurgent’ emanations... All ‘resurgent’ emanations are of secondary origin. 1917Econ. Geol. XII. 491 ‘Resurgent’ was adapted by the writer..to signify the magmatic emanations of secondary origin, that is, those absorbed from country rock... Von Wolff..extends it to describe also certain pyroclastic deposits... Most authorities on the genesis of ore deposits appear to be opposed to the concept. 1932F. F. Grout Petrogr. & Petrol. iii. 212 Magmas may acquire gases by assimilating or dissolving..some wall or roof rock that contained gas or water. This is ‘resurgent water’. |