1380 Yule Chart. (Reg. H.) Section 1. No. 29 In to the recoveryn of the landis of Been.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 339/1 I haue herd of the and of the helthes and recouerynges that thou makyst.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 115 (heading) Of the Counsell of the Grekys ffor Recoueryng of Elayne.

1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 9 The recoueringe inclosinge and inninge of..Wappinge marshe.

1593 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. N So dear was the recouering of Amiens.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 32 Hee is more affected with the recovering of that one sheepe..than with the safety of the rest.

a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) xiii. 217 The recovering of the soul to the pure knowledge of God.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 145. ⁋2 He..made her the most obsequious Bow in the Presence of the whole Theatre... She made him the Recovering or Second Courtesy.

1761 Ann. Reg. 1760 Contents sig. 2 Method for the speedy recovering of the use of the foot, or hand, that has been violently sprained.

1809 Erskine's Princ. Law Scotl. (new ed.) 207 An action may be defined, a demand regularly made and insisted in..for the attaining or recovering of a right.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vii. 64 All this would be as difficult to describe in detail, as it would be to depict the gradual recovering of the unfortunate individual.

1886 Dict. National Biogr. VI. 257/2 Bremner evinced great ingenuity in the raising and recovering of wrecked vessels.

1928 Science Dec. 621/1 Excavations..have resulted in the recovering of two well-preserved spirally curved tusks, two teeth, [etc.].

1989 Rev. Eng. Stud. 40 574 A. Vogler reads Milton as..a recovering of the pre-Oedipal and prelinguistic source of imaginative language.

2003 R. Whitney Millionaire Real Estate Mentor xv. 244 If you are a victim of identity theft, prompt action makes recovering somewhat easier—but be prepared for a frustrating, lengthy process.

1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Diii^v To the recouering remedie of this surfeting maladie, they haue restrained a healthfull diet to two or three dishes.

1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest i. i. 1 The Son of God comes with Recovering Grace.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires iii. 39 He..began To mend, and look like a recov'ring Man.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 286 These poor recovering Creatures.

1755 W. Forster Serm. 5 Tho' in some short recovering seasons it [sc. the Roman Empire] directed its course by the glimmering Twilight of expiring Virtue, yet at the last it sunk into decay, and became splendidly Barbarous.

1810 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 8 It will be good for him in his recovering state.

1842 I. Williams Baptistery I. i. 13 The bright recovering year.

1927 Sci. News Let. 11 337/1 A strain of bacteriophage obtained from the recovering patient would come to the rescue of others sick with the disease.

1989 Newsday (Nexis) 25 Jan. 58 Fancy rehab centers, which use TV ads and staffs consisting of expensive MDs and handsomely paid recovering addicts to accomplish what those 12-steppers used to do unpaid: get an addict to go to AA regularly for at least two years.

1994 New Yorker 21 Feb. 108/1 ‘Hello, my name is Eric, and I'm a recovering male’, is how Eric Bogosian begins one of the twelve monologues in his new one-man show.

1894 R. Bridges Shorter Poems 101 From waves of rustling wheat..Recoveringly that pass.

1901 P. J. Bailey Festus (rev. ed.) xxii. 353 Rather let all corrected, chastened, fined By thy just law,..recoveringly partake Truth's sacred light.