recourse
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, past participle of recurrō.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)s
Noun
recourse (countable and uncountable, plural recourses)
- The act of seeking assistance or advice.
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- Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
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- Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 12
- Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
- 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, chapter VIII, section ii:
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- (obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
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- swift recourse of flushing blood
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- Preventive physic […] preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.
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- (obsolete) Access; admittance.
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- Give me recourse to him.
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Derived terms
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Translations
act of seeking assistance or advice
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Verb
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- (obsolete) To return; to recur.
- 1563, John Foxe, “Martyrdom of Thomas Bilney”, in Actes and Monuments:
- […] the flame departing and recoursing thrice ere the wood took strength to be sharper to consume […]
- (obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
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Synonyms
- (to recur): repeat; see also Thesaurus:repeat
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