re·sur·gent

[ri-sur-juhnt]
adjective
rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.

Origin:
1760–70; < Latin resurgent- (stem of resurgēns, present participle of resurgere). See resurge, -ent

re·sur·gence, noun
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resurgent (rɪˈsɜːdʒənt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
rising again, as to new life, vigour, etc: resurgent nationalism
 
re'surgence
 
n

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resurgent (rɪˈsɜːdʒənt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
rising again, as to new life, vigour, etc: resurgent nationalism
 
re'surgence
 
n

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resurgent
1808, from obs. verb resurge "to rise again" (1575), from L. resurgere "rise again," from re- "again" + surgere "to rise" (see surge). Modern verb resurge (1887) is a back-formation.
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Example sentences
Resurgence of large dams threatens tribal people worldwide, report says.
But the latest spike in fuel prices has pedal-started a moped resurgence.
Central to this resurgence of religious partisanship was the call for the
  faith-based values that secularism had displaced.
One of the voices chronicling the resurgence of high tech may soon be silenced.
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