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Recrudescence   Listen
noun
Recrudescency, Recrudescence  n.  
1.
The state or condition of being recrudescent. "A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it (land) to chronic poverty and waste."
2.
(Med.) Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission.





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"Recrudescence" Quotes from Famous Books



... had been accumulated, would be postponed for two years (till October 1903), the gold being held as a reserve fund pending the result of the arbitration over the Argentine frontier. This was generally considered to be a reasonable and statesmanlike course. Unfortunately, a recrudescence of the excitement over the boundary dispute was occasioned by the irritation created in Argentina by the fact that, pending a decision, Chile was constructing roads in the disputed territory. During December 1901 relations were exceedingly strained, and troops were ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various
... lapse; falling back &c v.; retrogradation &c (retrogression) 283 [Obs.]; deterioration &c 659. [Return to, or recurrence of a bad state] backsliding, recidivation^; recidivism, recidivity^; recrudescence. V. relapse, lapse; fall back, slide back, sink back; return; retrograde &c 283; recidivate; fall off ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


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