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resilience, n. Brit. /rᵻˈzɪlɪəns/, U.S. /rəˈzɪliəns/, /rəˈzɪljəns/

Frequency (in current use): Origin: Probably a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin resilientia; Latin resilient-, resiliēns. Etymology: Probably partly (i) < post-classical Latin resilientia fact of avoiding (a1540; the sense ‘action of rebounding’ is paralleled in Latin slightly later (1643 in the passage translated in quot. 1651 at RESILIENCY n. 1); < classical Latin resilient- , resiliēns , present participle of resilīre RESILE v. + -ia -IA suffix ; compare -ENCE suffix), and partly directly < either (ii) RESILIENT adj. (although this is first attested slightly later) or its etymon (iii) classical Latin resilient-, resiliēns: see -ENCE suffix. Compare later RESILIENCY n.

 I. Literal applications.

†1. The action or an act of rebounding or springing back; rebound, recoil. Obsolete.

1626 F. BACON Sylua Syluarum §245 Whether there be any such Resilience in Eccho's. 1656 T. BLOUNT Glossographia Resilience, a leaping or skipping back, a rebounding. 1834 S. T. COLERIDGE Hymn to Earth in Friendship's Offering 166 Mightier far was the joy of thy sudden

resilience. 1843 T. CARLYLE Past & Present I. ii. 15 The Heaviest..has its deflexions..nay at times its resiliences, its

reboundings. 1866 J. MARTINEAU Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 41 The heart does not always propel without resilience.

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 a. Elasticity; the power of resuming an original shape or position after compression, bending, etc.

1807 T. YOUNG Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xiii. 143 The resilience is jointly proportional to its strength and its toughness, and is measured by the product of the mass and the square of the velocity of a body capable of breaking it.

1822 J. M. GOOD Study Med. II. 10 The natural elasticity or resilience of the lungs. 1824 T. TREDGOLD Pract. Ess. Strength of Cast Iron 82 The term modulus of resilience, I have ventured to

apply to the number which represents the power of a material to resist an impulsive force. 1867 C. T. F. YOUNG Fouling Iron Ships 164 To bend back again.., if the metal possesses sufficient resilience to

do so. 1897 T. C. ALLBUTT et al. Syst. Med. IV. 470 [The skin] giving a sensation of the loss of all elasticity or

resilience. 1937 Life 13 Sept. 18/2 (advt.) This Goodrich putty, made of rubber, never loses its resilience. 1990 Connoisseur Sept. 70/1 Linen as a fabric is valued for its resilience and strength.

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 b. Mechanics. The energy per unit volume absorbed by a material when it is subjected to strain; the value of this at the elastic limit.

1858 W. J. M. RANKINE Man. Appl. Mech. II. iii. 330 The Resilience or Spring of a Beam is the work performed in bending it to the proof deflection.

1877 W. THOMSON in Encycl. Brit. VII. 808/1 The word ‘resilience’ used without special qualification may be understood as meaning extreme resilience, or the work given back by the spring after being strained to the extreme limit within which it can be strained again and again.

1965 J. A. CORMACK Definitions Strength of Materials iii. 67 Show that resilience per cubic inch in direct tension or compression may be expressed in the form f /2E, where f is the intensity of stress induced and E is the modulus of elasticity.

2005 B. C. PUNMIA et al. Mech. Design vi. 215 If the load at the elastic limit..is 60 kN, calculate the elongation at elastic limit and the proof resilience.

 II. Figurative uses.

†3. The action of going back upon one's word. Cf. RESILEMENT n. Obsolete. rare .

1656 T. BLOUNT Glossographia Resilience,..a going from ones word.

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 a. The action of revolting or recoiling from something; an instance of this. Now rare.

1838 Burton's Gentleman's Mag. 2 191/1 The swelling pleasure..which the proud man feels in a cold resilience from the proffered thanks of those whom he has largely served.

1853 Methodist Q. Rev. Apr. 223 It is a resilience from old error—a reaction against decomposition—not of itself a forward movement.

1890 R. GARNETT Life Milton 38 Nor can we doubt that the old Puritan fully approved his son's resilience from a church defined by Arminianism and prelacy.

1900 S. I. WOODBRIDGE in tr. Chang Chih-Tung China's Only Hope 6 The ‘clear out the foreigner’ policy..represents a resilience from the ideas advocated in the Viceroy's book.

†b. Repugnance, antagonism. Obsolete. rare.

1882 T. MOZLEY Reminisc. Oriel I. xii. 85 It was possibly a mutual resilience between him [sc. Hartley Coleridge] and people of more orderly ways that prevented him from standing at Oriel till some years after.

 5. The quality or fact of being able to recover quickly or easily from, or resist being affected by, a misfortune, shock, illness, etc.; robustness; adaptability.

1857 J. F. SMITH & W. HOWITT Cassell's Illustr. Hist. Eng. I. lx. 333/2 In their struggles with the ponderous power of England [the Scotch] discovered an invincible vigour, not only of resistance, but of resilience.

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1893 Independent (N.Y.) 19 Oct. The resilience and the elasticity of spirit which I had even ten years ago. 1923 Polit. Sci. Q. 38 237 With a curious resilience which..has characterized him [sc. Gandhi] upon similar