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<center>For lessons on the topic of '''''Resilience''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Resilience this link].</center>
 
<center>For lessons on the topic of '''''Resilience''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Resilience this link].</center>
 
==Definitiion==
 
==Definitiion==
*1.a. The (or an) act of rebounding or springing back; rebound, recoil. (See also quot. 1656.)
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*1.a. The (or an) [[act]] of rebounding or springing back; rebound, recoil. (See also quot. 1656.)
    
::1626 BACON Sylva §245 Whether there be any such Resilience in Eccho's.  
 
::1626 BACON Sylva §245 Whether there be any such Resilience in Eccho's.  
::1656 BLOUNT Glossogr., Resilience, a leaping or skipping back, a rebounding; a going from ones word.  
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::1656 BLOUNT Glossogr., Resilience, a leaping or skipping back, a rebounding; a going from ones [[word]].  
::1799 COLERIDGE Hymn to Earth, Mightier far was the joy of thy sudden resilience.  
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::1799 COLERIDGE Hymn to Earth, Mightier far was the [[joy]] of thy sudden resilience.  
 
::1843 CARLYLE Past & Pr. (1858) 79 The Heaviest..has its deflexions..nay at times its resiliences, its reboundings.  
 
::1843 CARLYLE Past & Pr. (1858) 79 The Heaviest..has its deflexions..nay at times its resiliences, its reboundings.  
::1866 J. MARTINEAU Ess. I. 41 The heart does not always propel without resilience.
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::1866 J. MARTINEAU Ess. I. 41 The heart does not always [[propel]] without resilience.
    
:b. Revolt, recoil from something.
 
:b. Revolt, recoil from something.
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::1858 SEARS Athan. III. ii. 267 Those smaller sects whose fierce resilience from Catholicism isolates them from the common reason.  
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::1858 SEARS Athan. III. ii. 267 Those smaller sects whose fierce resilience from Catholicism isolates them from the common [[reason]].  
 
::1890 GARNETT Milton 38 Nor can we doubt that the old Puritan fully approved his son's resilience from a church defined by Arminianism and prelacy.
 
::1890 GARNETT Milton 38 Nor can we doubt that the old Puritan fully approved his son's resilience from a church defined by Arminianism and prelacy.
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::1882 MOZLEY Reminisc. I. xii. 85 It was possibly a mutual resilience between him [Hartley Coleridge] and people of more orderly ways that prevented him from standing at Oriel till some years after.
 
::1882 MOZLEY Reminisc. I. xii. 85 It was possibly a mutual resilience between him [Hartley Coleridge] and people of more orderly ways that prevented him from standing at Oriel till some years after.
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*2.a. Elasticity; the power of resuming the original shape or position after compression, bending, etc.; spec. the energy per unit volume absorbed by a material when it is subjected to strain, or the maximum value of this when the elastic limit is not exceeded.
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*2.a. Elasticity; the [[power]] of resuming the original shape or [[position]] after compression, bending, etc.; spec. the energy per unit volume absorbed by a material when it is subjected to strain, or the maximum value of this when the elastic limit is not exceeded.
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::1824 TREDGOLD 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.  
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::1824 TREDGOLD 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]].  
 
::1834 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 530 The natural elasticity or resilience of the lungs.  
 
::1834 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 530 The natural elasticity or resilience of the lungs.  
 
::1867 C. T. F. YOUNG Fouling Iron Ships 164 To bend back again.., if the metal possesses sufficient resilience to do so.  
 
::1867 C. T. F. YOUNG Fouling Iron Ships 164 To bend back again.., if the metal possesses sufficient resilience to do so.  

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