Definition of "resurgent"
resurgent
adjective
comparative more resurgent, superlative most resurgent
Undergoing a resurgence; experiencing renewed vigor or vitality.
Quotations
All the terror of time, where error and fear were lords of a world of slaves,Age on age in resurgent rage and anguish darkening as waves on waves,Fell or fled from a face that shed such grace as quickens the dust of graves.
1894, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “England: An Ode”, in Astrophel and Other Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, Part I, stanza 5, p. 103
What if this voice should say words that it speaks already in private, should rise and not fall again, should rise and rise and rise, and the people rise with it, should madden them with thoughts of rebellion and dominion, with thoughts of power and possession? Should paint for them pictures of Africa awakening from sleep, of Africa resurgent, of Africa dark and savage?
1948, Alan Paton, chapter 26, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, page 184
Rising again, as from the dead.
Quotations
[…] the co-eternal Word and only-begotten Son of the Living God, incarnate, tempted, agonizing […] , crucified, submitting to Death, resurgent, communicant of his Spirit, ascendent, and obtaining for his Church the Descent and Communion of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter.
1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, Aphorisms on Spiritual Religion, Aphorism 19, p. 326
noun
plural resurgents
One who rises again, as from the dead.
Quotations
The poor man came before the Police, making the bitterest complaints upon being restored to life; and for three years the burden of supporting him fell upon the mistaken Samaritan, who had rescued him from death. During that period, scarcely a day elapsed in which the degraded resurgent did not appear before the European, and curse him with the bitterest curses—as the cause of all his misery and desolation.
1808 April, Sydney Smith, “Indian Missions”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume 12, number 23, page 175