Recurrence
[rɪ'kʌrəns] or [rɪ'kɝəns]
Definition
(noun.) happening again (especially at regular intervals); 'the return of spring'.
Checker: Michelle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Recurrency
Typed by Evangeline
Examples
- The knowledge that drunkenness or insanity has been prevalent in a family may be the best safeguard against their recurrence in a future generation. Plato. The Republic.
- The perpetual recurrence of his name, joined to most honourable testimonials, in the Greek gazettes, kept up the interest he had excited. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When Jos heard that dreadful sound, he made up his mind that he would bear this perpetual recurrence of terrors no longer, and would fly at once. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The Indian mind was full of the idea of cyclic recurrence; everything was supposed to come round again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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