Crossword clues for resurgent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resurgent \Re*sur"gent\, a. [L. resurgens, -entis, p. pr. of
resurgere. See Resurrection.]
Rising again, as from the dead.
--Coleridge.
Resurgent \Re*sur"gent\, n.
One who rises again, as from the dead. [R.]
--Sydney Smith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Undergoing a resurgence; experiencing renewed vigor or vitality. 2 (context astronomy English) Of a celestial object, moving upwards relative to the horizon after a period of having moved downwards. 3 Rising again, as from the dead. n. One who rises again, as from the dead.
WordNet
adj. rising again as to new life and vigor; "resurgent nationalism"
surging or sweeping back again [syn: renascent]
Usage examples of "resurgent".
This Jew, this perpetual outsider to all societies, becomes the symbol for a resurgent Anglo-American culture.
Hysteria, so long held at bay by resigned numbness, sent tremors of resurgent fury coursing through her pinned arms and legs.
Suddenly, all her newfound toughness was no bulwark against resurgent grief.
Maia felt overwhelming resurgent resentment toward her former employers.
They place upon it solely the meaning of mass, and use it to combat the new resurgent Authority-Idea.
He was his own son talking steadily, moving briskly to cover his pounding heart and the resurgent panics as he felt himself slip into fresh uniform, check food supplies, oxygen-flasks, pressure helmet, space-suiting and turn, as every man on earth tonight turned, to gaze at the swiftly filling sky.
Earth and Venus and virtually useless for the purposes of resurgent civilization.
The lamp flickered as a slight whisper of moist air, bearing the damp smells of the resurgent forest, slipped through the open and unshuttered window.
New ethics laws, a resurgent Congress and a more inquiring media altered the prerogatives and daily lives of presidents.
You, at least can enjoy the resurgent summer, for I shall have nothing but snow for some weeks to come.
Some said that he escaped in the disguise of a scrubwoman and would return one day to lead resurgent hordes of derby and cigar.
If you put aside the arguable features of Mormon theocracy—th e fact of theocracy, women's rights, resurgent polygamy, the identification of Amerinds as lost tribes of Israel,—you could focus on the more secular facts of Mormonism.
Resurgent Dutchmen were prancing around on the top, trampling and burning those French and English flags.
Medical aid, disaster relief, united defense against an unimagined new enemy or a resurgent old one—.
And we built it over the mouth of the Romanian tributary, using the force of the resurgent water to drive our turbines.