recrudescence

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Patterns of American Jurisprudence, Neil Duxbury wrote, "By the late 1930s, Roscoe Pound, once keen for the expansion of administrative powers, was rallying against what he termed the recrudescence of administrative absolutism."

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  1. The state of being recrudescent, or becoming raw or exacerbated again.
  2. Hence A reopening; renewal; a coming into existence anew; a fresh outbreak. The king required some regulations should be made for obviating the recrudescence of those ignoramus abuses for the future that had been so scandalous before. Roger North, Examen, p. 632. (Davies.) That recrudescence of military organization which followed the Conquest. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., § 525.
  3. In medicine, increased activity of a disease or morbid process after partial recovery. A kind of recrudescence [of scarlet fever], but without the reappearance of the rash, would seem possible up to the eighth week. Quain, Med. Dict., p. 1392.

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  • It was the plain issue between the recrudescence, in a new and more dangerous form, of the old system of military alliances and balances of power and the new system of world organization in a league of nations. —  WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM
  • Patterns of American Jurisprudence, Neil Duxbury wrote, "By the late 1930s, Roscoe Pound, once keen for the expansion of administrative powers, was rallying against what he termed the recrudescence of administrative absolutism." —  Legal History Blog
  • He was a fantastical recrudescence, of the most fanciful age of chivalry. —  Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
  • Kirschleger[106] describes a tuft of leaves as occurring on the apex of the flowering spike after the maturation of the fruit in Plantago_, and a similar growth frequently takes place in the common wallflower, in Antirrhinum majus_, &c.; In cases where a renewal of growth in the axis of inflorescence has taken place after the ripening of the fruit, the French botanists use the term recrudescence, but the growth in question by no means always occurs after the ripening of the fruit, but frequently before. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • The royal adversary, personally responsible for the recrudescence of persecution closing all Bahá’í schools in Bahá’u’lláh’s native land, has been humbled to the dust. —  Messages to America
 

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  1. from French recrudescence =Spanish Portuguese recrudescencia; as recrudescen (t) + -ce.
 

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