convalescence
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His life by that time had become a series of failed love affairs and slow convalescences.
From Time Magazine Archive
Already it had suffered three or four accidents and achieved only two convalescences.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was shockingly emaciated; yet, during the various convalescences of the many months of his long sickness, he had never regained quite the same degree of strength as this time.
From The Red One by London, Jack
Ages so multiform and redundant and full of blood as the Victorian take a long time to die; they have their surprising recoveries and their uncovenanted convalescences.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund
In November 1831 he writes that for eighteen months past his life had been "one chain of severe sicknesses, brief and imperfect convalescences, and capricious relapses."
From English Men of Letters: Coleridge by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)
Vocabulary lists containing convalescence
Power Suffix: -escence
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East of Eden
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 15–20
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