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recrudescence

Postby Klimt » Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:56 pm

[ree-kroo-des-uhns]

breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.

He had been to the working-class picnics too often in his earlier life not to know what they were like, and as he entered the park he experienced a recrudescence of all the old sensations.

And the dwindling shreds of the humanity still startled me every now and then,--a momentary recrudescence of speech perhaps, an unexpected dexterity of the fore-feet, a pitiful attempt to walk erect.

he cried in his undertone, with a sudden recrudescence of anxiety.
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Postby Slava » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:42 pm

Would that the Agora might see a recrudescence of life! Wherefore art thee, old-timers? Wherefore art thee, new-timers?
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.


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