resilience

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RESIL'IENCE, RESIL'IENCY, noun s as z. [Latin resiliens, resilio; re and salio, to spring.] The act of leaping or springing back, or the act of rebounding; as the resilience of a ball or of sound.
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