recoveree

English

Etymology

From recover +‎ -ee.

Noun

recoveree (plural recoverees)

1. (law, historical) The person against whom a judgement is obtained in common recovery.
   • 1879, John Reeves, ‎William Francis Finlason, Reeves' History of the English Law, page 496:

     As already indicated elsewhere (vide ante, c. ix.), a recovery was only, even if real and adverse, effective as against the party — the recoveree and his heirs and legal representatives — that is, those "privy" to him in estate.

   • 1915, William Blackstone, ‎William Carey Jones, Commentaries on the Laws of England - Volume 1, page 1202:

     In all recoveries it is necessary that the recoveree, or tenant to the præcipe, as he is usually called, be actually seised of the freehold, else the recovery is void.

   • 2007, Francis Williams Sanders, ‎John Warner, An Essay on Uses and Trusts, and on the Nature and Operation of Conveyances at Common Law, page 219:

     For it was thought, that upon suffering the recovery or levying the fine, the use ressulted to the recoveree or conuzor, which resulting use the statute immediately executed: so that the use being once vested and executed by the statute, it could not be divested by any subsequent declaration.

2. Someone who is in the process of recovering from addiction.
   • 1996, Dick B., That Amazing Grace: The Role of Clarence and Grace S. in Alcoholics Anonymous, page 47:

     The area was much too important to the prospective recoveree to be tampered with by mortal man.

   • 2014, John F. Kelly, ‎William L. White, Addiction Recovery Management, page 272:

     In this CCAR program, a recoveree receives a phone call from a trained CCAR volunteer (usually a person in recovery) once a week for a minimum of 12 weeks to check-in on the recoveree's progress.

   • 2022, Jessica Coblentz, Daniel P. Horan, The Human in a Dehumanizing World:

     The most succinct way to think about recovery coaches is that they are life coaches for persons with substance use disorders. As life coaches, they focus not only on the disorder but first and foremost on the broad components of the recoveree's life: health, housing, education, employment, relationships, and more. Early on, the coach engages with the recoveree in what is called “motivational interviewing”—basically open-ended conversation about what the recoveree desires in life.

3. Someone who has or is in the process of recovering from an illness.
   • 1945 July-September, “Health Education Workshop, West Virginia State College”, in National Negro Health News, page 13:

     On another afternoon, as a "surprise" feature of the Physical Fitness and Recreation group, six little girls from the local elementary school gave a demonstration in physical education; one of the children was a "recoveree" of crippling infantile paralysis.

   • 2007, Wesley Gibson, You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival:

     It was like I was the one, not John, who was recovering from an illness, and I had all of the recoveree's heightened senses and exalted oaths to stop being dead to this carniaval called life.

   • 2007, Regina Niallah, International Modeling Guide, page 88:

     Often when well-meaning friends or relatives compliment the recoveree on how much healthier they look, the recoveree's mind replaces "healthy" with "fat."

4. (military) Someone who has been rescued by a combat operation.
   • 1966, Reports of General MacArthur - Volume 1, page 111:

     It was decided that all recoverees should be screened by the medical staff of USAHS Marigold, anchored in Yokohama harbor.

   • 2020, Darrel Whitcomb, Moral Imperative, page 153:

     Only a few officers were told that the recoverees would be POWs.

   • 2021, Michael Z. Williamson, That was Now, This is Then:

     He also understood the implication that the recoverees might still have mixed allegiance.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• recoverye, recoeveree, recovery

Etymology

From Old French recovree; equivalent to recoveren +‎ -e (participial suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈkuvəreː/, /rɛˈkɔvəreː/

Noun

recoveree (uncountable)

1. (rare, Late Middle English) Restoration or granting of that which is legally due.

Descendants

• English: recovery

References

• “recoverī(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-08-07.