recourse

[Re*courseĀ·]

Recourse is a source of help. If you're failing trigonometry in spite of studying until your brain hurts, you may have no recourse but to hire a tutor.

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A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.

Noun
act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort"

Noun
something or someone turned to for assistance or security; "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying"


n.
A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.

n.
Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.

n.
Access; admittance.

v. i.
To return; to recur.

v. i.
To have recourse; to resort.


Recourse

Re*course" (r?*k?rs"), n. [F. recours, L. recursus a running back, return, fr. recurrere, recursum, to run back. See Recur.] 1. A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] "Swift recourse of flushing blood." Spenser.
Unto my first I will have my recourse.
Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.
2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.
Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
3. Access; admittance. [Obs.]
Give me recourse to him.
Without recourse (Commerce), words sometimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders. It is a restricted indorsement.

Recourse

Re*course", v. i. 1. To return; to recur. [Obs.]
The flame departing and recoursing.
2. To have recourse; to resort. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.

To return; to recur.

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Usage Examples

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

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Other Usage Examples

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

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