All 4 Uses of
recite
in
Jacob Have I Loved
- If I couldn't smile at "Wheeze and Cough," how was I to force a laugh at a recitation of the days of the week?†
Chpt 7
- While the congregation recited the Twenty-third Psalm--"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; for thou art with me…"†
Chpt 14
- "'It is better,'" I recited piously, "'to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house with a contentious woman."
Chpt 18 *recited = to say (from memory) or read something aloud
- She was at my mother all the time now, following three steps behind her as she swept or cleaned, carrying the black Bible and reading and reciting to her.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(recite) to say or read something aloud -- especially something previously memorized such as a poem
or:
to say in detail -- especially a list of things