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再来する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

General use for a person or thing returning or coming again, often with a nuance of after some time or in the future.

Primarily a religious term for the return of Christ or a messianic figure; also used for the reappearance of a great person or reincarnation.

〈人ひと〉の再さい来らいthe reincarnation/second coming of (a great figure)
彼かれは現げん代だいのアインシュタインの再さい来らいと言いわれている。
He is said to be a modern-day reincarnation of Einstein.
〈事こと〉が再さい来らいするfor something to come around again
好景気こうきょうが再さい来らいする可か能のう性せいがある。
There's a possibility that the economic boom will return.
〈人ひと〉の再さい来らいを待まつto wait for the return of (a savior-like figure)
人ひと々びとは救きゅう世せい主しゅの再さい来らいを待まち続つづけた。
People kept waiting for the second coming of the savior.

再さい訪ほう sense 1
再訪 specifically means 'revisiting' a place through a deliberate visit, while 再来 more broadly covers anything or anyone coming or returning again, often unplanned or after a passage of time.
復ふっ活かつN1sense 2
復活 stresses coming back to life or activity after decline or death, whereas 再来 as 'second coming/reincarnation' focuses on a great figure's spirit or influence reappearing in a new person.
転てん生せい sense 2
転生 refers to being reborn into a new body after death (a Buddhist concept), while 再来 in the sense of reincarnation usually means a legendary figure's essence returning in someone new, without implying literal rebirth.
再さい発はつN1
再発 is the standard term for a disease or problem recurring, while 再来 is a slightly more literary word for the same idea of something coming back again.

到とう来らいN1sense 1
到来 means the arrival of something (often for the first time), such as a season or opportunity, while 再来 specifically implies a repeat coming, something happening again.

Compound of 再 (sai, 'again') and 来 (rai, 'come'). The meaning is transparent from its components.