recrudescencen.
/ˌriːkruːˈdɛsns/, /ˌrɛkruːˈdɛsns/, U.S. /ˌrikruˈdɛs(ə)ns/ 1. The action or fact of breaking out afresh; a recurrence of a disease or medical condition, or of an undesirable state of things, bad feelings, etc., esp. after a period of quiescence or remission.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > relapse > [noun] > recurrence or renewal
return1585
recrudency1603
reincrudescence1649
recrudescency1651
recrudescence1665
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > recrudescence
refrication1583
recrudency1603
reincrudescence1649
recrudescence1865
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > recurrence
recrudescency1651
return1694
repullulation1719
recrudescence1884
1665 G. Thomson Galeno-pale 110 For a few hours after there was a recrudescence and exacerbation of all the foresaid Symptoms.
1671 H. Stubbe Epistolary Disc. Phlebotomy 166 Neither ought there to be any dispute about repeating phlebotomy, since the first occasion thereof continuing, or upon a recrudescence urging us again thereunto, if the Patients strength can bear it, we ought to repeat it.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §64 632 The King required some Regulations should be made for obviating the Recrudescence of those Ignoramus Abuses, for the future.
1734 W. Stukeley Of Gout ii. 95 There comes a recrudescence, a secondary fitt, or what we call the echo of the gout.
1754 J. Kirkpatrick Anal. Inoculation 34 Very probably..not more than one Constitution in one Million is liable to such repeated and distant Recrudescences of this Disease.
1863 Sat. Rev. 1 Aug. 138/1 The recent victories have occasioned, as might have been expected, a recrudescence of calumny and malignity.
1865 J. S. Mill Auguste Comte 24 The recrudescence..of a metaphysical Paganism in the Alexandrian..schools.
1884 Standard 1 Aug. The fears of a recrudescence of the epidemic are now subsiding.
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 248 That quick-blooded sentiment hatred had run its course long since in Soames' heart, and he had refused to allow any recrudescence.
1954 J. E. S. Thompson Rise & Fall Maya Civilization i. 35 He has been much criticized for his severity in stamping out recrudescences of paganism.
1993 S. J. Ettinger Pocket Compan. Textbk. Vet. Internal Med. xlvii. 147 Recrudescence of lesions with virus replication and shedding of CHV can occur during stress.
2. A revival or rediscovery of something good or valuable.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > restoration to flourishing condition > fact of
regeneration1567
resurging1575
renascency1648
Second Coming1650
palintocya1660
reflorescence1690
revirescence1741
resurgence1798
renascence1810
resurgency1810
recrudescence1877
Renaissance1882
Risorgimento1883
reburgeoning1929
greening1970
1865 N. Amer. Rev. July 28 There has lately been what the French call a recrudescence in the vitality of the dialetto at the old sub-Alpine capital.]
1877 Littell's Living Age 21 Apr. 136/2 According to one account there was a recrudescence of zeal on the part of the synagogue, in the time that followed the excommunication.
1881 Sat. Rev. 12 Feb. 215 There has been of late a recrudescence of Wordsworthianism.
a1906 in H. W. Fowler & F. G. Fowler King's Eng. (1906) i. 15 A literary tour de force, a recrudescence, two or three generations later, of the very respectable William Lamb.
1955 G. Gorer Exploring Eng. Char. v. 74 After the age of 24 the interest in the company of one girl drops off sharply and continuously; there is no recrudescence of interest after the age of 35, as there is with women.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Aug. 900/2 The first fruit of this act of recrudescence was the catalogue of drawings.
1988 L. Gordon Eliot's New Life i. 12 The recrudescence of old passion in a new emotion, in a new situation which ‘comprehends, enlarges and gives meaning to it’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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