recurrence
/rəˈkɝ.əns/ noun C1- Return or reversion to a certain state.
- The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
- A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease. · Near-synonym: relapse
- Recourse.
Plural recurrences
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Ten minutes had elapsed since the nurse had left; Valentine, who for the last hour had been suffering from the fever which returned nightly, incapable of controlling her ideas, was forced to yield to the excitement which exhausted itself in producing and reproducing a succession and recurrence of the same fancies and images.
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