Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being recrudescent, or becoming raw or exacerbated again.
- n. Hence A reopening; renewal; a coming into existence anew; a fresh outbreak.
- n. In medicine, increased activity of a disease or morbid process after partial recovery.
- n. In botany, the production of a fresh shoot from the top of a ripened spike.
- n. Figuratively, a return; a re-appearance: as “The Recrudescence of Imray,” the original title of a story by Rudyard Kipling in “Mine Own People.”
Wiktionary
- n. The state or condition of being recrudescent.
- n. medicine the acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or condition of being recrudescent.
- n. (Med.) Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a return of something after a period of abatement
Etymologies
- From Latin recrudescere. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In 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.”
“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.”
“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
“In fact, Pound considered what he variously called the recrudescence of “justice without law,” “the rise of personal government,” and the “growth of administrative law” cause for concern not celebration.”
“One might think that she actually likes the music, but her brahmin vocabulary gives her away: "recrudescence" generally refers to unpleasant conditions, such as a disease.”
“Rancor over these differences feeds the recrudescence of fratricidal violence across the centuries.”
“But scarcely had I dropped into slumber when I was aroused by the recrudescence of my hives.”
“Now stumbling and halting, and again in feverish haste, as the recrudescence of forgotten words was fast or slow, she moved about the cabin, naming article after article.”
“He still had recrudescence of geniality, but they were largely periodical and forced, and they were usually due to the cocktails he took prior to meal-time.”
“He had been to the working-class picnics too often in his earlier life not to know what they were like, and as he entered the park he experienced a recrudescence of all the old sensations.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘recrudescence’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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phrontistery-r
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Hence
Words with definitions that have a "hence" in them.
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Ballardian
All things descriptive from JG
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Burroughs
Detestable words
purulence, bête noire, exigent, exculpate, desideratum, lucriferous, concomitant, pertinacious, pervicacious, gemütlichkeit, sublimate, sanfroid and 39 more...
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Misanthropic
Lovecraft, Lovecraftian, bete noire
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Poe
dark descriptors
sepulchral, unutterable, decrepitude, abjection, abasement, lugubrious, moribund, recrudescence, prevaricator, doppelgänger, ululation, crepuscular and 13 more...
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It means what?
Definitions you'd never surmise from their spelling.
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
larches, torquate, stillicide, vermiculate, preterist, theolatry, iridule, vulgarian, cloutish, lemniscate, torsion, trillium and 176 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 339 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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#termsfromtoday
I'm always entertained by the terms @immerito tweets using the hashtag #termsfromtoday. As best I can tell, the tag emerged in mid 2011 after a brief flirtation with an alternate hashtag form. You'...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
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ADW1
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for recrudescence.

chained_bear "The army feared a recrudescence of influenza among troops; it had good reason to fear one."
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 357 Feb 17, 2009
yarb I see this word a lot in Conrad. Feb 22, 2008
sonofgroucho You never seem to hear of crudescence, do you? Jan 11, 2008
vmarinelli First encountered this word in some column by George Will. Which just figures. (Both the fact that it was a George Will-dispatched vocabulary word, and the fact that I have zero recollection of the article save for said word.) Jan 11, 2008