The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rejuvenescence \Re*ju`ve*nes"cence\ (-n?s"sens), n.
A renewing of youth; the state of being or growing young again.
(Bot.) A method of cell formation in which the entire protoplasm of an old cell escapes by rupture of the cell wall, and then develops a new cell wall. It is seen sometimes in the formation of zo["o]spores, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A renewal of youthful characteristics or vitality 2 (cx botany English) The escape of the protoplasm of a cell and its conversion into a cell of a different character, as in certain algae.
Usage examples of "rejuvenescence".
This rejuvenescence was effected by means of two principal agencies,--new methods and a new instrument.
Of late, too, a slight revival of the June war scare had made its mark on her in a certain rejuvenescence, which always accompanied her contemplation of national crises, even when such were a little in the air.
You have in yourself another kind of grace, another wit, another coquetry, and above all that rejuvenescence of heart and mind which those women have never had.
The name brought back to me the memory of some snippet from a newspaper which spoke of an obscure scientist who was striving in some unknown way for the secret of rejuvenescence and the elixir of life.
Although his physical forces are failing him, although his limbs falter, his brain remains intact, and is giving us its last fruit in his studies on the Cabbage caterpillar and the Glow-worm, which mark a sudden rejuvenescence of thought on his part, and the commencement of a new cycle of studies, which promise to be of the greatest originality.
But the detachment of a great section of the new middle-class from the aristocratic order of England to form the United States of America, and the sudden rejuvenescence of France by the swift and thorough sloughing of its outworn aristocratic monarchy, the consequent wars and the Napoleonic adventure, checked and modified the parallel development that might otherwise have happened in country after country over all Europe west of the Carpathians.
The crocus of the glen, the anemone of the prairie, the cress of the sheltered waters, the hum of the first insect, the twitter from the mossy nest, the murmur of forest streams, were all so many types of human rejuvenescence and animation.
And as truly was the Japanese the type of permanence up to a generation ago, when he suddenly awoke and startled the world with a rejuvenescence the like of which the world had never seen before.
Never had the garden looked more meetly set, never had the sun shone more genially, and the air impelled the blood and sent it coursing more joyously through his veins, than on that morning of the rejuvenescence of all his high ideals.
And with the rising sap came a rejuvenescence of his whole body, and a quickening of experience.
Instead of being told that America is, as all colonies are, a rejuvenescence of old races, in particular of Europe.