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reˈcoilment Now rare or Obs.
Also 7 recuil-, recule-.
[f. recoil v.1 + -ment.]
†1. The act of removing or sending away; dismissal. Obs. rare.
a1608Sir F. Vere Comm. (1657) 46 Though I was sensible as became me, who saw no cause in myself, of this recuilment and disgrace. Ibid. 67 When notwithstanding I had discouered..in my recuilment his Lordships coldnesse of affection to me.
2. The act of recoiling or springing back.
1651Fuller's Abel Rediv. Wks. 1867 I. 118 A man might easily perceive the recoilments of his own natural and exorbitant proclivities. 1684Fell Life Hammond in H.'s Wks. (1684) I. 49 The recuilment of serous moisture into the habit of the body and insertions of the Nerves. 1766G. Canning Anti-Lucretius iv. 314 Such feign'd recoilment never could exist. 1847in Webster. |