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/rɪkˈəvri/ /rɪkˈəvəri/ Listen

noun

Recovery n.

The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.

(Law) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.

The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had. (Obs.) "Help be past recovery."

In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke.

Act of regaining the natural position after curtseying.

(Fencing, Sparring, etc.) Act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack.

Common recovery (Law), a species of common assurance or mode of conveying lands by matter of record, through the forms of an action at law, formerly in frequent use, but now abolished or obsolete, both in England and America.

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Etymology of 'Recovery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the Dark Ages added much to the practical sciences. But, beginning with the thirteenth century, discovery followed discovery, each more important in its consequences than its last. One of the first steps was perhaps the recovery of lost ground by the restoration of the classics. Gothic art and the vernacular literatures testify to the intellectual activity of the time, but they did not create the new elements of life that were brought into being by ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... November 1563, bound for Guinea and the river Sestos, but the port whence they fitted out is nowhere mentioned. After the unlucky disaster that befel him in Guinea in the year before, Baker had made a kind of poetical vow not to go near that country any more; but after his return to England, and recovery from his wounds, he soon forgot past sorrows; and being invited to undertake the voyage in quality of ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr

... the possession of Barbara Jane for six weeks, during which Miss Rosetta broke her heart with loneliness and longing, and meditated futile plots for the recovery of the baby. It was hopeless to think of stealing it back or she would have tried to. The hired man at the Wheeler place reported that Mrs. Wheeler never left it night or day for a single moment. She even carried it with her when she went ...

— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... at Mrs. Bean's during January and February. She camped, as she called it, in the room next to the small one occupied by her father, and thus she was always near to wait upon him day or night. Mr. Sinclair's recovery was slow, and at first the doctor almost despaired of his life. It was a bad case of pneumonia brought on by his becoming over-heated while walking along the cut-out, and then getting chilled to the bone lying on the snow. To Lois it was a most anxious time, and during the ...

— Under Sealed Orders • H. A. Cody

... very ill. She has not felt like herself since that dreadful night, but we did not like to tell you, fearing it would put back your recovery." ...

— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe

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