16 January 2016

Recrudescence

[ree-kroo-des-uh ns]

noun

A renewed activity after a period of dormancy.

Origin of recrudescence

Latin

1715-1725; < Latin recrūdēsc (ere) to recrudesce + -ence

Related forms

recrudescent, adjective

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Examples from the Web for recrudescence

Historical Examples

They must have experienced a recrudescence of panic at thought of the dynamite they believed hidden.
The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
Jack London

Here we have a recrudescence of the idea that great penalties are deterrent.
Folkways
William Graham Sumner

Of late, of course, I have thought of little else but what this recrudescence of my youth means to you and to myself.
Black Oxen
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Anagram

credence cures

Today’s quote

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

– Pablo Neruda

On this day

16 January 1920 – Prohibition commences in the U.S. with the passing of the 18th Amendment which prohibited the importation, exportation, transporting, selling and manufacturing of alcohol.

16 January 1945 – Adolf Hitler flees to his bunker with his long-time companion, Eva Braun. They remain there for 105 days until he takes his own life.

16 January 1979 – The Shah of Iran is forced to flee Iran following the mutiny of his Army and a revolution led by students, which resulted in the Ayatollah Khomeini taking over the leadership of the country.