What does "resurgent" mean?

Someone who rises again, as from the dead.

What is a synonym for "resurgent"?

Common synonyms include: reappearing, reborn, reemergent, reemergent, renascent, renascent.

adj, noun

adj, noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Noun

1
Someone who rises again, as from the dead.
"The poor man came before the Police, making the bitterest complaints upon being restored to life; and for three years the burden of supporting him fell upon the mistaken Samaritan, who had rescued him from death. During that period, scarcely a day elapsed in which the degraded resurgent did not appear before the European, and curse him with the bitterest curses—as the cause of all his misery and desolation."

Adjective

1
Undergoing a resurgence; experiencing renewed vigor or vitality.
"All the terror of time, where error and fear were lords of a world of slaves, Age on age in resurgent rage and anguish darkening as waves on waves, Fell or fled from a face that shed such grace as quickens the dust of graves."
2
Of a celestial object, moving upwards relative to the horizon after a period of having moved downwards.
3
Rising again, as from the dead.
"1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, Aphorisms on Spiritual Religion, Aphorism 19, p. 326, […] the co-eternal Word and only-begotten Son of the Living God, incarnate, tempted, agonizing […] , crucified, submitting to Death, resurgent, communicant of his Spirit, ascendent, and obtaining for his Church the Descent and Communion of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter."

Adjective

"There is resurgent populism around the globe, not just in this country."

From re- + surgent.

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