All 9 Uses
recollect
in
A Hope in the Unseen
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- Cedric has seen pictures of that skinny young thing, a striking girl with a quick smile who, as he has discerned from his mother's infrequent recollections, searched for love and found mostly trouble.†
Chpt 1recollections = memories
- He pauses from the recollection for a moment, sits up, pillow propped against the cinder blocks, and gathers himself.†
Chpt 3 *recollection = memory
- Cedric just sits, taking his time, easing out of the recollection.†
Chpt 8
- She hadn't thought about all that in more than a year, or the adjoining recollection: her prayer that Cedric was the one.†
Chpt 11
- After a few minutes, he settles on a hazy recollection of himself, sitting in the smoky nightclub, feet cleaving to the beer-sticky floor, head back, mouth foolishly open in a hoot, drunk coeds all around.†
Chpt 13
- It's not just the recollection of what Rob said and how Cedric failed to reciprocate that eats at him.†
Chpt 14
- And that notion about ease swiftly drew its opposite, a passing recollection of his days worrying about gangs-and guns, walking through garbage, keeping his head low.†
Chpt Epil.
- Most recollections were provided to me shortly after an event in question, a necessity since the book's narrative stretches across nearly three years and memories tend to bend over time.†
Chpt A.N.recollections = memories
- Those "thoughts" are based-in almost every case-on a subject's immediate disclosure or fresh recollection of what he or she thought or felt at a particular moment.†
Chpt A.N.recollection = memory
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