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verbrecoyle (third-person singular simple present recoyles, present participle recoyling, simple past and past participle recoyled)
present singular third person recoyles · participle present recoyling · participle past recoyled · past recoyled
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of recoil (“to retire, withdraw”).
Thus vvhen this Courtly Gentleman vvith toyle / Himſelfe hath vvearied, he doth recoyle / Vnto his reſt, and there vvith ſvveete delight / Of Muſicks skill reuiues his toyled ſpright, […]
1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, signature O2, verso
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