resurgencen.
/rᵻˈsəːdʒ(ə)ns/, U.S. /rəˈsərdʒ(ə)ns/, /riˈsərdʒ(ə)ns/ 1. The action or an act of rising again (chiefly in figurative senses); an increase or revival after a period of little activity, popularity, or occurrence.
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the world > time > frequency > [noun] > recurrence
return1567
revolution1593
recurrence1641
recurrency1652
repeatedness1664
resurgence1798
resurgency1810
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun] > again
reascending1611
reascent1621
resurgence1798
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
1798 S. E. Brydges Arthur Fitz-Albini I. ii. 48 He traced, with painful pleasure, the rapid decline, and the slow rise, of the sun of Science; he investigated the paths of its resurgence.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 153 That happy, humble, ducking under, yet constant resurgence against, the check of her superiors!
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xviii. 218 The events of the night all came back to him..the crowding resurgence of facts and names.
1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) I. i. 40 The resurgence of popular literature and the creation of popular theatrical types deserve to be..noticed.
1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xviii. 186 The house was full of sounds... They came in to her with a quality of awakening, resurgence, as though the house itself had been asleep.
1963 D. E. S. Maxwell Amer. Fiction iv. 151 This resurgence of an earlier set of loyalties is temporary.
1992 Amer. Scholar Autumn 592/1 Scouting is having a resurgence similar to the early days of the movement.
2. Geomorphology. The re-emergence of a stream after having flowed underground; a stream re-emerging in this way; the opening through which it emerges.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > re-emergence
resurgence1900
resurgent1965
1900 Science 19 Oct. 609/1 He [sc. E. A. Martel] describes the sinking and resurgence of streams; and also a system of siphonage.
1905 E. A. Martel in Rep. 8th Internat. Geographic Union 1904 170 The limestone springs are not true springs, but almost always resurgences—that is, new coming forth of rain waters or streamlets previously buried.
1938 B. Mussey tr. N. Casteret Ten Years under Earth v. 152 The water reappeared, springing up imperceptibly through jumbled stones... The resurgence was here..but seldom has an underground stream come to light in more unpromising fashion.
1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation xiv. 303 The river, however, retains its individuality and may return to the surface through a resurgence or spring.
1965 Geogr. Jrnl. 131 37 This subterranean stream..is joined by a small seepage resurgence and streamlet within a large bedding plane cave..through which it flows to the main resurgence.
1995 Amer. Scientist Sept. 456/2 The cave has different species from those in the resurgence..and the underflow.
2006 W. B. White in R. S. Harmon & C. M. Wicks Perspectives Karst Geomorphol. 142/1 Investigators could place receptors in all suspected resurgences and collect them at their convenience.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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