adjective
- rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.
adjective
- rising again, as to new life, vigour, etcresurgent nationalism
1808, from obsolete verb resurge “to rise again” (1570s), from Latin resurgere “rise again, lift oneself, be restored,” from re- “again” (see re-) + surgere “to rise” (see surge).