[f. ASSURGENT: see -ENCY.] The quality of being assurgent; the disposition to rise or raise oneself.

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1664.  Baxter, Life & Times, I. 126. My nature … may find itself insufficient for … assurgency to the attempting of difficult things.

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a. 1834.  Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1839), IV. 167. The continual assurgency of the spirit through the body.

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