1582 in Bible (Rheims) Phil. iv. 10 (side note) This reflorishing is the reuiuing of their old liberalitie, which for a time had been slacke & dead. S. Chrys.

1728 M. Earbery tr. T. Burnet Of State of Dead II. x. 108 The Wicked are no Objects of Hope, nor of Re-flourishing.

1853 Ld. Hervey Geneal. Our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ vi. 158 The eleventh and twelfth chapters of Isaiah, which contain so beautiful an account of the reflourishing of the stem of Jesse.

1879 Catholic World July 571/2 We have never ceased..to long for the reflourishing of the whole region which was desolated by the civil war.

1965 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 26 349 The play is a spring tale in the reflourishing of possibility after a long period of blight.

2005 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 16 Nov. 20 It's about keeping the light going during the darkness of winter, and keeping the warmth and the hope for the spring, and the reflourishing and resurrection.

1621 H. Farley St. Paules-Church (title page) All such as beare good will to the reflourishing estate of the said Chvrch.

1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility vi. 238 The reflourishing Glory of that most excellent and Beneficent King Renatus.

1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) III. xciv. 191 The reflourishing fortunes of the benevolent Blewitt.

1947 Notes 4 361 So much futile harmonic muddiness in so many ‘modern symphonies’ with their newly reflourishing, retrospective infantilism of a badly digested 12-tone system.

1998 A. Hübler Expressivity of Gram. viii. 203 Arguments that focus in particular on the link between narcissism and the reflourishing repertoire of mode vécu devices of expressivity.