refluctuation

Noun

refluctuation (usually uncountable, plural refluctuations)

1. (usually) A flowing back; refluence; ebbing.
   • Now the Reason, or rather the Cause from whence this Imbecility or Weakness of the Head did proceed is, for as much as there is a Penury or lake of Spirits by their Refluctuation to their proper Fountain and Center, and that occasion'd by Sleep, they are not so quickly and readily distributed and...1681, William Salmon, Iatrica: seu, Praxis Medendi. The practice of curing, page 98
   • And it is more probable, that the Impressions made upon our Organs produce an Undulation and Refluctuation of the Spirits, or of Newton's materia subtilis in the Nervous Fibrils, which reaching the Sensorium, gives us the Ideas of objects; than that these Ideas should be excited by these Vibrations...1752, William Porterfield, “An Essay concerning the Motions of our Eyes”, in Medical Essays and Observations, volume 3, page 165
2. (usually) A return or resurgence.
   • […] production during years of stress, and its comparative refluctuation when social conditions are easy and prosperous.1946, Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, page 54
   • But he is not even sure that this is the real spring of his hesitancy, it is rather the refluctuation of old emotions; and he would prefer to escape.1956, Advocate - Volumes 140-142, page 20