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resurgent

[ ri-sur-juh nt ]

/ rɪˈsɜr dʒənt /

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adjective

rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.

Origin of resurgent

First recorded in 1760–70, resurgent is from the Latin word resurgent- (stem of resurgēns, present participle of resurgere). See resurge, -ent

OTHER WORDS FROM resurgent

re·sur·gence, noun

Words nearby resurgent

resupine, resupply, resurface, resurgam, resurge, resurgent, resurrect, resurrection, resurrection fern, resurrection plant, resurrectionary

Example sentences from the Web for resurgent

Atlanta soon flourished, becoming the resurgent urban center of an otherwise impoverished South.

Atlanta’s Fall Foretold The End Of Civil War Bloodshed |Marc Wortman |September 1, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But will 9,800 troops be enough to keep a resurgent al Qaeda out?

Will Obama's 10,000 Troops in Afghanistan Be Enough to Stop Al Qaeda? |Eli Lake, Josh Rogin |May 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The Crimean Tatars, however, who were shipped away to Kazakhastan by Stalin after WWII, have no desire to join a resurgent Russia.

Kiev Defiant at Russian Aggression |Vijai Maheshwari |March 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Toll Brothers is just a smaller part of a larger story of a resurgent housing market in 2012.

Toll Brothers Rings Up Profits in Housing Comeback |Matthew Zeitlin |December 4, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

But then I started to get it: self-pity is central in the consciousness of the resurgent right.

Billionaires Are the Victims! Thomas Frank on the Republican Strategy |Thomas Frank |October 4, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Laodice withdrew to Ephesus and kept court there: long affection, resurgent, sent Antiochus thither to join her.

King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana |Gordon Bottomley
The instant that the possibility of losing Laura occurred to him, he felt again the full, resurgent wave of his desire.

The Wheel of Life |Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
He said it almost with a sneer, but nothing could crush the resurgent glow in her heart.

The Highgrader |William MacLeod Raine
Its resurgent dirge stirs vague forebodings which root in the calamitous experience of the race.

The Mystery of The Barranca |Herman Whitaker
But again, his own extremity is God's opportunity; Faith is seen cresting the resurgent waves.

The Hart and the Water-Brooks; |John R. Macduff

British Dictionary definitions for resurgent

resurgent

/ (rɪˈsɜːdʒənt) /

adjective

rising again, as to new life, vigour, etc resurgent nationalism

Derived forms of resurgent

resurgence, noun