Sekirov Dictionary

recourse

UK /ɹɪˈkɔːs/US /ˈɹiːkɔɹs/

noun 4
verb 3
forms 3

noun4

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The act of seeking assistance or advice.
- Thus dyed this great Peer in the thirty sixth year of his age compleat, and three days over, in a time of great recourse unto him, and dependence upon him — 1678
The use of (someone or something) as a source of help in a difficult situation.
•
(no longer used) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
- [B]y the swift recourse of flushing blood / Right plaine appeard, though she it would dissemble, / And fayned still her former angry mood, / Thinking to hide the depth by troubling of the flood. — 1596
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(no longer used) Access; admittance.
- [...] Ile giue you a pottle of burn'd sacke, to giue me recourse to him, and tell him my name is Broome: onely for a iest. — 1597

verb3

(no longer used) To have recourse; to resort.
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(no longer used) To return; to recur.
- […] the flame departing and recoursing thrice ere the wood took strength to be sharper to consume […] — 1563
(no longer used) To recurse (execute a procedure recursively).

forms

recoursed · recoursing · recourses

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