All 19 Uses of
recollect
in
Frankenstein
- My mother's tender caresses and my father's smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections.
Chpt 1recollections = memories
- I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
Chpt 2
- And although I could not consent to go and hear that little conceited fellow deliver sentences out of a pulpit, I recollected what he had said of M. Waldman, whom I had never seen, as he had hitherto been out of town.
Chpt 3recollected = remembered
- Nothing could equal my delight on seeing Clerval; his presence brought back to my thoughts my father, Elizabeth, and all those scenes of home so dear to my recollection.
Chpt 5recollection = memory
- My hand was already on the lock of the door before I recollected myself.
Chpt 5recollected = remembered
- Justine, you may remember, was a great favourite of yours; and I recollect you once remarked that if you were in an ill humour, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for the same reason that Ariosto gives concerning the beauty of Angelica—she looked so frank-hearted and happy.
Chpt 6recollect = remember
- I saw plainly that he was surprised, but he never attempted to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds, yet I could never persuade myself to confide in him that event which was so often present to my recollection, but which I feared the detail to another would only impress more deeply.
Chpt 6recollection = memory
- I had an obscure feeling that all was not over and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past.
Chpt 9
- You doubtless recollect these papers.
Chpt 15recollect = remember
- I tried to conceal this as much as possible, that I might not debar him from the pleasures natural to one who was entering on a new scene of life, undisturbed by any care or bitter recollection.
Chpt 19recollection = memory
- I must pause here, for it requires all my fortitude to recall the memory of the frightful events which I am about to relate, in proper detail, to my recollection.
Chpt 20
- Yet one duty remained to me, the recollection of which finally triumphed over my selfish despair.
Chpt 21
- Oppressed by the recollection of my various misfortunes, I now swallowed double my usual quantity and soon slept profoundly.
Chpt 21
- For a moment only did I lose recollection; I fell senseless on the ground.
Chpt 23
- If I looked up, I saw scenes which were familiar to me in my happier time and which I had contemplated but the day before in the company of her who was now but a shadow and a recollection.
Chpt 23
- Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete.
Chpt 24recollect = remember
- I shut my eyes involuntarily and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer.
Chpt 24
- I recollected my threat and resolved that it should be accomplished.
Chpt 24recollected = remembered
- Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice.
Chpt 24 *recollection = memory
Definition:
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(recollect) to remember -- especially experiences from long agoeditor's notes: Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Relative to its synonyms, recollect brings to mind a leisurely piecing together of distant memories. It may be used in a less formal manner than remember and is almost always less formal than recall.