resurgent
/rɪˈsəːdʒ(ə)nt
/adjective
Increasing or reviving after a period of little activity, popularity, or occurrence: resurgent nationalism...
- A feature of resurgent Estonian nationalism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been national song festivals, celebrated for a period of days during the summer.
- The reason for this is that the Sain label had the didactic purpose of supporting the then resurgent Welsh nationalism by releasing records entirely in the Welsh language.
- Venice, on the other hand, was feeling increasingly threatened by a resurgent Rome and financially drained by money going to church-building and convent dowries.
Origin
Early 19th century (earlier as a noun): from Latin resurgent- 'rising again', from the verb resurgere, from re- 'again' + surgere 'to rise'.
Rhymes
- sub-shelf
- subshell
- sub-sheriff
- subshrub
- subshrubby
- subsidation
- subside
- subsidence
- subsident
- subsidiarily
- subsidiarity
- subsidiary
- subsidiary cell
- subsidiary coin
- subsidiary coinage
- subsidiary company
- subsidiary goal
- subsidiary treaty
- subsidise
- subsidist
- subsidium
- subsidization
- subsidize
- subsidizer
- subsidy