revaˈlescencerare—1. [f. L. revalesc-ĕre + -ence.] Convalescence. 1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 301 Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had been independent of the medicines given him? So revaˈlescenta., ‘beginning to grow well’ (Webster, 1864).