Resurgent

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Of a celestial object, moving upwards relative to the horizon after a period of having moved downwards.
  3. 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
  1. 1
    rising again as to new life and vigor wordnet
Noun
  1. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From re- + surgent.

Etymology 2

From re- + surgent.

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