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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

... suddenly as the sight may be restored by the removal of a bandage, I suppose it had been going on all the time, and that her reason was given back to her on the day she had strength to make use of it. Tommy was the instrument of her recovery. He had fought against her slipping backward so that she could not do it; it was as if he had built a wall behind her, and in time her mind accepted that wall as impregnable and took a forward movement. And with every step she took he pushed the wall after ...

— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie

... few seconds to allow Mr. Granger to reach his room, and then once more started on his awful journey. He passed out of the room in safety; happily Beatrice showed no signs of recovery. A few quick steps and he was at her own door. And now a new terror seized him. What if Elizabeth was also walking the house or even awake? He thought of putting Beatrice down at the door and leaving her there, but abandoned the idea. To ...

— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard

... a good deal," the other replied, smiling faintly and showing the recovery of her self-possession by sundry little touches to the crushed roses in her gown. "At nine o'clock I went to the Saturday Morning Club, to hear Mr. Jefferson's paper on 'The Over-Soul in Buddhism'; then, at eleven, I went to Mrs. Gore's to see an example of the way they teach deaf and dumb children ...

— The Philistines • Arlo Bates

... the statute of fines by the statute 32 Henry VIII., cap. 36, which declares a fine duly levied by tenant in tail to be a complete bar to him and his heirs and all other persons claiming under such entail. This was evidently agreeable to the intention of Henry VII., whose policy was (before common recovery had obtained their full strength and authority) to lay the road as open as possible to the alienation of landed property, in order to weaken the overgrown power of his nobles. But as they, from the opposite reasons, were not easily brought to consent to such a provision, ...

— Landholding In England • Joseph Fisher

... permission," said the surgeon, "but also assure you that such kindness will hasten the captain's recovery, for time hangs so heavily on his hands that ...

— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe

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