Definition of "recumbency" []

• Recumbence (noun)

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• "Mr Blenkiron, having finished his after-dinner recumbency, had sat up and pulled a small table towards him."
• "The recumbency and the peace of the dead impress me — warriors at rest under their old banners."
• "But the gospel directs us to proceed 'from faith to faith,' viz. from faith in God to faith in Christ: for true and saving faith is not a mere naked recumbency immediately upon God, which faith the Jews were wont to profess, but faith in God by the mediation of faith in Christ."