Recourse

Quick meaning: Recourse is a noun meaning The act of seeking assistance or advice.

Meaning

The act of seeking assistance or advice.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, recourse to) The use of (someone or something) as a source of help in a difficult situation.
2. (obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
3. (obsolete) Access; admittance.
4. (obsolete) To return; to recur.
5. (obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
6. (obsolete) To recurse (execute a procedure recursively).

Example Sentences

All other means have fail'd to move her heart; / Our laſt recourſe is, therefore, to your Art.

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

[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.

For Phyſick is either curative or preventive; Preventive we call that which by purging noxious humors, and the cauſes of diſeases, preventeth ſickneſs in the healthy, or the recourſe thereof in the valetudinary; [...]

Word Forms

• recourses
• recoursing
• recoursed

Synonyms for recourse

Depending on context, synonyms include repeat, refuge, resort.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include refuge, resort, redress, remedy, repair, remedial.

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