recrudescent

American  

[ree-kroo-des-uhnt] / ˌri kruˈdɛs ənt /

adjective

1. breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; reviving or reappearing.

   Recrudescent tuberculosis in that part of the world is presenting challenges for some ill-equipped health systems.

   The region is haunted by the specter of ethnic chauvinism and a recrudescent nationalism.

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Example Sentences

The theater’s rich intellectual inheritance serves as a buffer to society’s recrudescent stupidity.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

It was an ideal episode for his recrudescent success story for Downey did his telephonic trial while his wife was undergoing a surgical operation.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Before the ever recrudescent forces of neo-paganisim it is most useful, we contend, to reassert in plain, terse language the principles, the reasons that explain and justify our persistent attitude on the school problem.

From Catholic Problems in Western Canada by Daly, George Thomas

Amazing to say, none of these "more primitive phases of belief," none of the recrudescent savage magic, was intruded by the late Ionian poets into the Iliad which they continued, by the theory.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

Then the owner died, bankrupt, and for years it remained untenanted, the recrudescent bush slowly enveloping its once highly cultivated lands, and the deadly black snake, iguana, and 'possum harbouring among the deserted outbuildings.

From The Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The Fisherman; and The Black Bream Of Australia 1901 by Becke, Louis