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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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"Recovery" Quotes from Famous Books

... see how it can take place just now, Miss Pendleton," said one, quietly. "We have a very dangerous and difficult operation to perform upon your betrothed, and each moment it is delayed reduces his chance of recovery. We must put him under ...

— Jolly Sally Pendleton - The Wife Who Was Not a Wife • Laura Jean Libbey

... Justification by faith is merely peace of mind from trust in a righteous God, and not a fiction of merit by transfer. Regeneration is a correspondent giving of insight or an awakening of the forces of the soul; propitiation is the recovery of peace, and the atonement is our sharing the Saviour's Spirit, but not his purchase of us by his own blood. Throughout the Scriptures we should assume in ourselves a verifying faculty,—conscience, reason, or whatever else we choose ...

— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

... letters which my client is most anxious to regain. Of their nature, I will say nothing—indeed, I know very little about them, for, after all, that is none of my business. But she has given me to understand that their recovery is essential ...

— The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet - A Detective Story • Burton Egbert Stevenson

... may please to observe, that, in the last article for the recovery of my liberty, the emperor stipulates to allow me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 Lilliputians. Some time after, asking a friend at court, how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me, that his majesty's ...

— Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Regions of the World • Jonathan Swift

... are the most conspicuous survivors; continued by those young geniuses Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Jack London, all dead before their time, and by Theodore Dreiser, Robert Herrick, Upton Sinclair, happily still alive; given a fresh impulse during the shaken years of the war and of the recovery from war by such satirists as Edgar Lee Masters and Sinclair Lewis and their companions in the new revolt. The intelligent American fiction of the century has to be studied—so far as the novel is concerned—largely in terms of its agreement or its disagreement with this naturalistic ...

— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren

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