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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."— 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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