All 5 Uses
recur
in
The Alchemist, by Coelho
(Edited)
- He thought for a moment that it would be better to pay her fee and leave without learning a thing, that he was giving too much importance to his recurrent dream.
p. 15.2recurrent = occurring repeatedly
- The boy knew what he was about to describe, though: the mysterious chain that links one thing to another, the same chain that had caused him to become a shepherd, that had caused his recurring dream, that had brought him to a city near Africa, to find a king, and to be robbed in order to meet a crystal merchant, and...
p. 75.2recurring = happening repeatedly
- Two years ago, right here on this spot, I had a recurrent dream, too.
p. 167.8
- In my dream, there was a sycamore growing out of the ruins of the sacristy, and I was told that, if I dug at the roots of the sycamore, I would find a hidden treasure. But I'm not so stupid as to cross an entire desert just because of a recurrent dream.
p. 168.3 *recurrent = occurring more than once
- If he hadn't believed in the significance of recurrent dreams, he would not have met the Gypsy woman, the king, the thief, or...Well, it's a long list.
p. 169.7recurrent = happening repeatedly
Definitions:
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(1)
(recur) to happen repeatedly or a second time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)