All 10 Uses
recollect
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Alias Grace
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- Lost memories lie down there like sunken treasure, to be retrieved piecemeal, if at all; and amnesia itself may be in effect a sort of dreaming in reverse; a drowning of recollection, a plunging under.... Behind his back the door opens: his breakfast is making its entrance.†
Chpt 6 *recollection = memory
- His disregard for truth was well-known......— WILLIAM HARRISON, "Recollections of the Kinnear Tragedy," written for the Newmarket Era, 1908.†
Chpt 7recollections = memories
- But on second thought, he has no way of knowing that; and he has an uneasy sense that the very plenitude of her recollections may be a sort of distraction, a way of drawing the mind away from some hidden but essential fact, like the dainty flowers planted over a grave.†
Chpt 7
- And since he already knew so much, I unburdened myself to him, and told him everything I have told you, Sir, even the part where I heard Mary's voice, and fainted, and ran about the house with no recollection of it; except about the doctor, as I felt Mary would not want it known.†
Chpt 8recollection = memory
- But I have no recollection of giving it to him.†
Chpt 9
- However, those same recollections could as easily be interpreted as the naive superstitions and fears of a simple soul.†
Chpt 9recollections = memories
- I lay there on the bed, trying to remember what had happened, as I couldn't recollect how I'd got into the room.†
Chpt 10recollect = remember
- On the other hand, although she can't seem to remember the murder, she has a minute recollection of the details surrounding it — every item of laundry she ever washed, for instance; and such things as the boat race that preceded her own flight across the Lake.†
Chpt 12recollection = memory
- WILLIAM HARRISON, "Recollections of the Kinnear Tragedy," written for the Newmarket Era, 1908.†
Chpt 14recollections = memories
- He passed a number of months in this city in making a detailed examination of Grace Marks, with particular attention to her gaps in recollection concerning the murders.†
Chpt 14recollection = 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