Early in 2025, a meme was going around for the 17th-century word, recrudescence, which was purported to mean “the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.” In the 1660s and 1670s, it was used to describe the reemergence of symptoms or of a disease in patients. While that can be one definition, and that is frequently used, it can also mean the return of something good as well. For example, it can be used as the revitalization or renaissance of something as well.