Reply vs Recourse - What's the difference?
reply | recourse |
(intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
To act or gesture in response.
* 1988 , Emmanuel Doe Ziorklui, Ghana: Nkrumah to Rawlings
To repeat something back; to echo.
A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
Something given in reply.
The act of seeking assistance or advice.
* Sir H. Wotton
* Dryden
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12
* 1929 , , chapter VIII, section ii:
(obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
* Spenser
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) Access; admittance.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To return; to recur.
* (rfdate) Foxe:
(obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
* (Bishop Hacket)
As verbs the difference between reply and recourse
is that reply is (intransitive) to give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer while recourse is (obsolete) to return; to recur.As nouns the difference between reply and recourse
is that reply is a written or spoken response; part of a conversation while recourse is the act of seeking assistance or advice.reply
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Please reply to my letter.
- "Sorry I'm late," replied the student.
- He replied that he was not sure.
- Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.
- It is a sound to be dreaded until you ascertain that it is being made by friendly forces; even then, your welcome to it must be tempered with some caution, because gunfire usually leads to replying gunfire
Synonyms
* respond, answer, retort, answer back, react, rejoin, counter, return, revert, follow up, get back toNoun
(replies)Synonyms
* answer, comeback, response, retort, return, account, rejoinder, riposte, reactionrecourse
English
Noun
- Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
- Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
- Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
- Nor were the wool prospects much better. The .
- swift recourse of flushing blood
- Preventive physic preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.
- Give me recourse to him.
Derived terms
* legal recourseVerb
(recours)- The flame departing and recoursing .