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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Reconvalescence, n. [Cf. 18th c. Eng. reconvalescence (1767), med. L. reconvalescentia, Reconvalesce v.] Recovery from illness. — 1672 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 610.
A woman … being at the point of death dispones some tenements of land. … She recovering … raises reduction [etc.] … that the donatarii were ungrate, in so far as they refused to repone her to her own place upon her reconvalescence
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