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Quotation dates: 1375, 1499-1599
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Recure, -cuir, Recour, n. [ME recour (a1330), recowre (c1450), late ME and e.m.E. rekure (1414), recure (a1542), f. Recur(e v., also, in part, contracted var. of Recover n.] Means of recovery; remedy. Also, once, applied to a person. b. But, without recure, without, or past, hope of recovery. Cf. Recover n.(1) a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 335.
To thy seiknes sal be na recure a1568 Bannatyne MS 246a/5. c1590 J. Stewart 182/3.
I laik haill And may find no recuir(2) 15.. Saltire Rev. (1954) II 51.
Of all my wo, yo are the haill recuirb. a1500 Golagros and Gawane 1203.
It war syn, but recure [: also, honoure], The knightis honour suld smure 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 4794.
Had not bene ȝour gude counsell But recure I had schamit my sell a1568 Scott xx 3.
Wappit without recure [: indure] In wo remidiles a1568 Bannatyne MS 219b/7.
Ȝour sycht hes slane my cors without recure(b) 1375 Barb. ii 546.
Quhar the assailȝeis all … slew the pupill but recour [: tour]
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