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▪ I. recession, n.1|rɪˈsɛʃən|
[ad. L. recessiōn-em (Vitruvius), n. of action f. recēdĕre to recede. Cf. mod.F. récession, It. recessione (Florio).]
1. a. The action of receding from a place or point; withdrawal, retirement.
† recession of the equinoxes: see precession.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. ix. vi. (1660) 419 Neither were it a Happiness worth the having, for a Mind,..by a recession into it self, to spend an Eternity in self-converse. 1691Ray Creation i. (1692) 185 The Sun..plying them always alike without any annual Recession or intermission. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn., Recession of the Equinoxes is the going back of the Equinoctial Points every Year about 50 Seconds. 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. (1791) Notes 15 Particles mutually recede from and approach each other reciprocally; at the times of their recession from each other [etc.]. 1853C. Brontë Villette xxvi, She seemed to recede. I drew nearer: her recession, still silent, became swift. 1879Proctor Pleas. Ways Sc. iv. 99 The method shows no signs of approach or recession in the moon's case.
b. Used with ref. to receding or distant parts of surfaces or outlines. (See also recessor.)
1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty xii. 101 Planes or flat surfaces..have their appearances of recession perfected by the first species of retiring shades. 1821Craig Lect. Drawing, etc. i. 44 Those degrees of light and dark which arise from difference of local colour, or from recession in distance. 1870Ruskin Lect. Art v. 126 The solid forms of an object, that is to say, the projections or recessions of its surface within the outline.
c. A setting or going back in time. rare.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 317 They must..endure anticipation and recession from the moveable condition of their causes. a1876M. Collins Th. in Garden (1880) II. 290 Has there really been a recession of the seasons, so that summer comes later every year?
d. Philol. The transference of accentuation towards or on to the first syllable of a word.
1886Amer. Jrnl. Philol. VII. ii. 246 A tendency existed to recession from the end of the word. 1929S.P.E. Tract xxxii. 388 This condition, which lightens the syllable, allows and even invites loss and recession of accent.
2. The action of receding, retiring, or departing, in various transf. or fig. senses. Const. from.
Common in 17th c. (esp. in Jer. Taylor's works) of departure from a principle, state or condition.
1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. viii. 152 It is a plaine recession from Antiquity. 1659W. Brough Schism 524 There is no sin nor schism in our recession from them. a1716South Serm. X. 301 (T.) His [Christ's] whole life went in a constant recession from his own rights. 1758Johnson Idler No. 32 ⁋13 All this is a temporary recession from the realities of life to airy fictions. 1859J. Cumming Ruth iii. 41 He may leave us..to taste the bitterness of our recession so far and so criminally from Him.
3. The departure of a quality or property from that in which it exists.
1659Pearson Creed iv. (1839) 301 Death is nothing else but the privation or recession of life. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 801/2 The recession of heat from the limbs was noticed by Hippocrates. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 304 There is little wonder that in some cases the recession of mental function is not on physiological lines.
4. Econ. A temporary decline or setback in economic activity or prosperity.
1929Economist 2 Nov. 806/1 The material prosperity of the United States is too firmly based, in our opinion, for a revival in industrial activity—even if we have to face an immediate recession of some magnitude—to be long delayed. 1930Engineering 3 Jan. 21/2 The paramount problem is now whether this recession is yet at an end. 1938E. Ambler Cause for Alarm i. 16 ‘Trade recession’ they called it... As far as I could see there wasn't a great deal of difference between a trade recession and a good old-fashioned slump. 1958Spectator 30 May 676/2 This is partly due to the continued inablity of the United States to pull itself out of recession. 1976F. Zweig New Acquisitive Society ii. iii. 99 The private sector, particularly in the throes of recession, is limited in its ability to pay by the discipline of the market system. 1981Times 11 Mar. 19/4 The economy is now in deep recession.
▪ II. recession, n.2|riːˈsɛʃən|
[f. re- 5 a + cession: cf. recede v.2]
The action of ceding back.
1890Century Mag. Jan. 475/2 A bill for the recession [of the Yosemite Valley] to the United States. |