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recrudescence

noun
/ˌɹiːkɹuːˈdɛs(ə)ns/UK/ˌɹikɹuˈdɛs(ə)ns/US

Etymology

From Late Latin recrūdēscentia, from Latin recrūdēscēns, present participle of recrūdēscere (“to recrudesce”), from recrūdēscō (“(of a wound) to break open again; (of a fight, sedition,...) to break out again, be rekindled”); from re- (“again”) + crūdēscō (“to grow harsh or violent; to become worse”) (from crūdus (“bleeding, bloody, raw”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“blood outside the body”)) + -ēscō (suffix forming verbs indicating a becoming of something)). The word is cognate with French recrudescence, Italian recrudescenza, Spanish recrudescencia, recrudecimiento.

  1. derived from *krewh₂-✻
  2. derived from recrūdēscēns
  3. derived from recrūdēscentia

Definitions

  1. The condition or state being recrudescent

    The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression.

    • The population of particular countries, or districts of country, may be given up to less improving pursuits than those of agriculture. A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [i.e., land] to chronic poverty and waste.
    • A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.
    • Of course, bad habits die hard, and even with the new policy there were recrudescences of the prior practices in the following years.

  2. The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement.

    • Very probably however, ſuppoſing Mr. Dwight's Account to be Fact, not more than one Conſtitution in one Million is liable to ſuch repeated and diſtant Recrudeſcences of this Diſeaſe.
    • It becomes very difficult under many circumstances to distinguish between an epidemic solely due to recrudescence of the cholera principle retained from previous outbreak, and an epidemic the result of fresh introduction.

  3. The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA