Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Complete restoration of health.
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To these may be added typhus, especially when it is of a more protracted nature, and the reconvalescence is slow and incomplete.
Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876
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The Honourable Mr. Bidmore's letters to his father soon after announced that poor Mr. Cargill had been seized with a nervous fever, and again, that his reconvalescence was attended with so much debility, it seemed both of mind and body, as entirely to destroy his utility as a travelling companion.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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The Honourable Mr. Bidmore’s letters to his father soon after announced that poor Mr. Cargill had been seized with a nervous fever, and again, that his reconvalescence was attended with so much debility, it seemed both of mind and body, as entirely to destroy his utility as a travelling companion.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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