recoverance
(rɪˈkʌvərəns)
[a. OF. recoverance, reco(u)vrance: see recover v.1 and -ance.]
1. Recovery from trouble, misfortune, adversity, etc.; remedy, succour, help. Now only arch.
| c 1375 Cursor M. 25869 (Fairf.) Þi saule..sulde drey endeles penaunce & neuer sulde come to recoueraunce. 1423 Jas. I Kingis Q. lxxxvii, [They] diuersely happinnit for to deye;..Sum for dispaire, without recouerance. c 1440 York Myst. xxvi. 101 He coueres all þat comes Recoueraunce to craue. 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxxiii. 96 He was a true knyght, by whome in his tyme we had many recoueranses, and good iourneys. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 121 He persuadit the Earle of Douglas..to interpryse his recoverence in sett battell. 1886 J. Payne tr. Boccaccio's Decameron ii. viii. I. 210 Inasmuch as some means was found for his recoverance. |
† 2. The regaining or recovery of some thing or state. Obs.
| 1440 in Wars Eng. in France (Rolls) II. 590 The recouverance of the kingis inheritaunce. c 1477 Caxton Jason 95 b, For the recouurance of her helth she wolde goo thanke the goddes diane. a 1533 Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) C vj, The recouerance therof ought to be feared, if a fole haue the guydyng therof. |