Word Finder - recollection

definition

The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory

synonyms

• remembrance
• reminiscence

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The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance

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Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.

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That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence.

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The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.

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From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.

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A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.

My most vivid recollection of that summer is the ocean.

But the child has no recollection whatever of this fact.

Howie has no recollection and his mother won't even discuss the subject.

Dean had a memory of Fred draping a flannel shirt over Franny's bare shoulders, though no recollection of the order of arrival or any real details of what followed.

His only recollection is that you were as devastated over your sister as everyone else.

The name of Herculaneum, which for some time remained attached to the site of the disaster, is mentioned in the later itineraries; but in the course of the middle ages all recollection of it perished.

Perhaps this was a confused recollection of the story I had heard not long before about Red Riding Hood.

I can give no aid on that account, for I have no recollection of how I came to be here, either.

The Versus, considered in themselves, might very well be supposed to relate to Ca dmon; but the mention of the five ages of the world in the concluding lines is obviously due to recollection of the opening of the Heliand (lines 46-47).

Meditation also fosters a state of recollection that makes fruitful the times of silence during the day.

For a moment only did I lose recollection; I fell senseless on the ground.

The memory of Natasha was his most poetic recollection.

I have only a vague recollection of either game.

Of these turnpike stairs there were, in the recollection of the author, some in High Street and Church Street.

My recollection is that the man was a truck driver.

There was a grateful recollection of the event which was commemorated by this symbol.

I don't have a vague recollection of either game.

My next recollection is waking up as we entered the naval base at Singapore.

Afterward - she smiled gently at the recollection - she had thanked her bemused jailers for helping her to attain nirvana.

She is wearing silk pajamas, but clearly has no recollection of getting there.

I admit I have only a sketchy recollection of exactly who was here to meet us off the plane.

I have not a map of the Pacific, but my memory has preserved a very clear recollection of its southern part.

His after-show parties went on for days and were legendary among those who retained any recollection of them.

My recollection of meeting these boats was that they where always going like a bat out of hell to maintain steerage.

Some vague recollection of known historical events (§ 3 end) might be claimed among the traditions ascribed to the closing centuries of the second millennium, but the view that the prelude to the monarchy was an era when individual leaders " judged " all Israel finds no support in the older narratives, where the heroes of the age (whose correct sequence is uncertain) enjoy only a local fame.

The two meteorological events of the decade which will probably live longest in the recollection were, however, the terrible drought of 1893, resulting in a fodder famine in the succeeding winter, and the severe frost of ten weeks' duration at the beginning of 1895.

Recollection of the extraordinary complexity of the problems which are involved in the whole question of pain of cardiac origin will emphasize the extreme vagueness of the above assertion.

His argument that "the circumstantiality, local knowledge and evidently full recollection of the narratives (in Joshua) give confidence in the truth of their statements" is one which historical criticism in no field would regard as conclusive, and his contention that a redactor would hardly incorporate conflicting traditions in his narrative "if he believed they contradicted it" begs the question and ignores Oriental literature.

He remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection.

I remember, yes, I remember you with the standard! said Kutuzov, and a flush of pleasure suffused Prince Andrew's face at this recollection.

Having repeated these words the captain wiped his eyes and gave himself a shake, as if driving away the weakness which assailed him at this touching recollection.

She had in fact seen nothing then but had mentioned the first thing that came into her head, but what she had invented then seemed to her now as real as any other recollection.

Mr Donald then gave his reasons for why I should prefer Dr. Clark 's recollection of the conversation.

Upon reverting to normal, the usual consciousness has no recollection of the incident.

Mrs Torrible has no recollection of Mrs Hardacre, which is not surprising given the time that has now elapsed.

These results show that zacatechichi administration appears to enhance the number and/or recollection of dreams during sleeping periods.

Words marking collars, armpits, sewn into linings, seams becoming integral to the recollection.

This is the earliest recollection I have of a really inspired use of the close-up in television drama.

Looking back, I have mentally blocked out this part of my childhood, because I have no recollection of my mother even being present.

Or, set up a time to record a senior's recollection of particular moments in history and make copies for the family.

If people in your current life have been revealed to you in a past life and are open to participating in a regression, you, too, may be able to validate your past life recollection through their regression sessions.

Mark, a recovering alcoholic, tells Stan Wedeck he was drunk during his flashforward which makes his recollection of flash forward details fuzzy.

Recollection (anamnesis) alone would prove pre-existence, but not existence after death.

Of the Lenten fast or Quadragesima, the first mention is in the fifth canon of the council of Nicaea (325), and from this time it is frequently referred to, but chiefly as a season of preparation for baptism, of absolution of penitents or of retreat and recollection.

It is replaced by Chronicles, which, confining itself to Judaean history from a later standpoint (after the Persian age), includes new characteristic traditions wherein some recollection of more recent events may be recognized.

Their recollection of his conduct during the congress of Chatillon was the determining fact at this crisis; his professions at Lyons or Paris had not the slightest effect; his efforts to detach Austria from the coalition, as also the feelers put forth tentatively by Fouche at Vienna, were fruitless.

While the existence of such a personage as Gilgamesh may be admitted, he belongs to an age that could only have preserved a dim recollection of his achievements and adventures through oral traditions.

Later, in the age of the priestly schools, the ark received much attention, although it must obviously be very doubtful how far a true recollection of its history has survived.

The charge of heathenism we find in Suidas is probable enough; that is to say, Tribonian may well have been a crypto-pagan, like many other eminent courtiers and litterateurs of the time (including Procopius himself), a person who, while professing Christianity, was at least indifferent to its dogmas and rites, cherishing a sentimental recollection of the older and more glorious days of the empire.

A recollection of his former power survived, however, at Babylon, where Bel-Merodach adopted the king before his right to rule was allowed.