Definition of "recumbence" []

• The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent. (noun)

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• "It came with the Queen's postage from an address in Sherbrooke, and related of her recumbence there after her visit with the specialist."
• "Then again, she may have actually been charmed by his recumbence."
• "So I stepped on to the floor, reeling dizzily from my enforced recumbence, and knelt by the side of the bed."