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Definition of resurgent adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

resurgent

adjective
 
/rɪˈsɜːdʒənt/
 
/rɪˈsɜːrdʒənt/
[usually before noun] (formal)
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  1. becoming stronger or more popular again
    • a resurgent economy
    • resurgent nationalism
    Word Originearly 19th cent. (earlier as a noun): from Latin resurgent- ‘rising again’, from the verb resurgere, from re- ‘again’ + surgere ‘to rise’.
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