All 4 Uses
recollect
in
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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- I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley.†
recollect = remember
- Just sufficient time had elapsed to enable each storyteller to dress up his tale with a little becoming fiction, and, in the indistinctness of his recollection, to make himself the hero of every exploit.†
recollection = memory
- All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard in the afternoon now came crowding upon his recollection.
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- He recollected the place where Brom Bones's ghostly competitor had disappeared.†
recollected = remembered
Definitions:
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(1)
(recollect) to remember -- especially experiences from long agoSynonym 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. -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) (historical usage) a thought or to collect thoughts -- often after an interruption -- often gaining composure, awareness, or a perspective