Recollection Definition
rĕkə-lĕkshən
recollections
noun
recollections
The act or power of recollecting, or calling back to mind; remembrance.
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What is recollected.
Recollections of youth.
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Calmness of mind.
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Religious meditation.
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(archaic) (also spelled re-collection) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.
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Noun
Singular:
recollection
Plural:
recollectionsOrigin of Recollection
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Via French récollection or the verb recollect, both from Latin recollectus, the past participle of recolligere (“to collect again"), itself from re- + colligere (“to gather").
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re- +"Ž collection
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