All 13 Uses
recollect
in
The Return of the Native
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- There was no middle distance in her perspective: romantic recollections of sunny afternoons on an esplanade, with military bands, officers, and gallants around, stood like gilded letters upon the dark tablet of surrounding Egdon.†
Chpt 1recollections = memories
- Ah, I recollect that I once accidentally offended her, and I have never seen her since.†
Chpt 2 *recollect = remember
- You wanted to join hands with me in the ring, if I recollect?†
Chpt 2
- Thomasin, as she had expected, was not visible, and Eustacia recollected that a light had shone from an upper window when they were outside—the window, probably, of Thomasin's room.†
Chpt 2recollected = remembered
- "Good morning, miss," said the reddleman, taking off his cap of hareskin, and apparently bearing her no ill-will from recollection of their last meeting.†
Chpt 2recollection = memory
- I cannot recollect a clear dream of you.†
Chpt 3recollect = remember
- Yeobright did not fear for his own part; but recollection of Eustacia's old speech about the evanescence of love, now apparently forgotten by her, sometimes caused him to ask himself a question; and he recoiled at the thought that the quality of finiteness was not foreign to Eden.†
Chpt 4recollection = memory
- She recollected now how quietly well-dressed he had been that morning: he had probably put on his newest suit, regardless of damage by briars and thorns.†
Chpt 4recollected = remembered
- It was not till this moment that Clym recollected her to be the person who had behaved so barbarously to Eustacia.†
Chpt 5
- I cannot recollect that anybody was with me besides yourself.†
Chpt 5recollect = remember
- The room in which she had formerly slept still remained much as she had left it, and the recollection that this forced upon her of her own greatly changed and infinitely worsened situation again set on her face the undetermined and formless misery which it had worn on her first arrival.†
Chpt 5recollection = memory
- A sudden recollection had flashed on her this moment: she had not money enough for undertaking a long journey.†
Chpt 5
- The old rooms, it is true, were not much higher than the between-decks of a frigate, necessitating a sinking in the floor under the new clock-case she brought from the inn, and the removal of the handsome brass knobs on its head, before there was height for it to stand; but, such as the rooms were, there were plenty of them, and the place was endeared to her by every early recollection.†
Chpt 6
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. -
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(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