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recollection

[rek-uh-lek-shuhn]

noun

  1. the act or power of recollecting, or recalling to mind; remembrance.

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  2. something that is recollected: recollected.

    recollections of one's childhood.

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • misrecollection noun
  • nonrecollection noun
  • self-recollection noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of recollection1

1635–45; < French éDZ𳦳پDz or Medieval Latin 𳦴DZŧپō- (stem of 𳦴DZŧپō ), equivalent to 𳦴DZŧ ( us ) ( recollect ) + -ō- -ion
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In a statement to the Globe, Brown said she had “no recollection” of the event.

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Yet the text’s unhurried recollections reflect its content: “Homework” feels leisurely as if to reflect the functional, socialist-adjacent government that allows its characters to subsist.

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Earps' recollections of her and Wiegman's first conversation illuminate one of the other ways she's changed the game – through her vulnerability.

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Many had no recollection of the abuse they are said to have sustained, and had to be told by police that their names appeared in Le Scouarnec's diaries.

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Mears admitted he had carried out the attack, but said he had no recollection of what happened.

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recollectedˌ𳦴ˈ𳦳پDz