resiliencyn.

1651 tr. J. A. Comenius Nat. Philos. Reformed x. 189 Why those things that are to be seen must of necessity be enlightned? because sight is the resiliencie [L. resilientia] of the light from the object to the eye.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues iii. xxiv. 462 There is the more strong and peremptory Resiliency from this sordid Region of Misery and Sin.

1676 H. More Remarks 2 Disc. 143 The resiliency of the Quick-silver against the top of the Tube.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 110. ⁋7 The common resiliency of the mind from one extreme to another.

1826 H. D. Best Four Years France 78 Disgusted with these appearances of distrust and resiliency.

1846 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. May 336/1 There has been too much in modern literature of what may be called the pendulum writing; that is, a constant resiliency, both in matter and manner, from one extreme to the other.

1712 R. Greene Princ. Nat. Philos. i. ix. 165 Resiliency..is said to consist in the Minuteness of the Pores of the recoiling Body; that is, upon the Bending, for Instance, a Plate, or Lamina of Steel, the small Meatus's are contracted on the Concave part, and enlarg'd on the Convex.

1788 G. Blane Lect. Muscular Motion 45 The resiliency and energy of the vessels are not supported even by their former degree of distension.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 511/2 The resiliency by which the skin recovers itself after pressure.

1863 A. Wynter Subtle Brains 33 The process of vulcanization that gives such extraordinary resiliency to the material.

1948 Concrete & Constructional Engin. 43 260 The resiliency and freedom from cracks of prestressed concrete make the material very suitable for railway sleepers.

1998 Soil & Tillage Res. 47 169 Rubber crumb adds resiliency to sports turf.

1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland xvi. 144 Such is the resiliency of all nature to its original state.

1839 R. Bell Eminent Literary & Sci. Men 344 Mr. Temple..seems to have possessed an extraordinary resiliency of spirit under this great affliction, for he married the daughter of Sir John Barnard shortly afterwards.

1857 R. Tomes Americans in Japan xvi. 379 Notwithstanding the calamities caused by the earthquake, there was shown a resiliency in the Japanese character which spoke well for their energy.

1888 Leeds Mercury 24 Feb. 4/7 The active properties of resiliency possessed by the Russian rouble.

1941 J. Bernard Let. 4 May in K. Payne Between Ourselves (1983) 270 I would give you resiliency of body so that all the blows and buffets of this world would leave you still unbeaten.

1992 N.Y. Times 16 July a14/4 With each new challenge he has grown wiser and stronger, as he demonstrated with his remarkable resiliency and unflappability in the recent bruising primaries.