Recollection is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RECOLLECTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something remembered
• the action or faculty of remembering or recollecting something
• a thing recollected; a memory
• The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.
• The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection.
• That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence.
• The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
• the ability to recall past occurrences
• the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
• something recalled to the mind
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• tranquillity of mind; religious contemplation

Words related to RECOLLECTION

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How to use RECOLLECTION in a sentence

• It remained in the minds of the midshipmen only as a pleasant recollection of a quaint and pretty place.
• He brought to the recollection of the House the barbarous scenes which had taken place it in St.
• He did not at all wonder, when the subject of the Slave Trade was mentioned, that the Old Bailey naturally occurred to his recollection.
• He had a distinct recollection of being shot through the heart.
• Of these and other kindred notices I cannot say what portion is in truth The naked recollection of that time, And what may rather have been called to life 615 By after-meditation.
• The last conversation he had had with Amabel also arose forcibly to his recollection, and the little likelihood there appeared of seeing her again gave him acute agony.
• Then a sudden recollection of Bartlett Cloud came to him, and he hesitated.
• The noise produced by the saw caused him to glance about him every moment, but the recollection of the insult restored his courage.
• The recollection of her own weakness stood in her way.
• I applied myself to the recollection of all that I had read or heard in praise of beauty, and endeavoured to accommodate some classical compliment to the present occasion.
• Even the recollection of him, when he was no longer present, was felt as no small benefit by those who had grown accustomed to be with him, and who accepted him.
• I have a keen recollection of the last Franco-Prussian War.
• And he tried to brace himself by means of resentful recollection of the eager way she had taken the bone he brought her.
• He desired me to recall him to your recollection, and to assure you of his friendship.
• A candid recollection of what you know of each other will be the true corrective.
• And once there, I put myself into a state of entire recollection, and began to treat with our Lord in a way, when I think of it, of too great familiarity.
• During these months the memories of Strassburg are fresh in his mind, and the recollection of Friederike and the teaching of Herder are his chief sources of inspiration.
• As for Ferdinand, he strolled along, full of beautiful thoughts and thrilling fancies, in a dreamy state which had banished all recollection or consciousness but of the present.
• But she found herself too weary to sew, and, moreover, this assailant of recollection was upon her again.
• The particulars of this gallant affair must be fresh in the recollection of my readers.
• She was at that time about fourteen, and old enough to retain a vivid recollection of the circumstances.
• Some persons flush up, as I have observed and have been assured, at any sudden and disagreeable recollection.
• But gradually on the river of recollection all the incidents of the morning flow through my mind.
• It has sometimes occurred to me that they are combined with the recollection of my aunt, Mrs.
• No doubt he had passed there again and again, as a boulevard extended along one side of the small park, yet his memory retained no clear recollection of the place.
• I am ready to believe that you, yourself, have a wrong recollection of what you said, but I am very certain as to the exact form of the words that I heard passed.
• Goodrich records his recollection of one of these displays.
• It was a banquet of delight to her, the recollection of which would brighten all her week, and it cost her no more than air and sunlight.
• But there came slowly back the recollection of his lost standing in Flat Creek.
• The recollection of all the joy of that walk together in the night came upon them both.
• True, it is only in times of recollection or of great emotion that this profound contact is fully present to consciousness.
• And his rage was intensified by the recollection of the pathos he had himself felt in Bassett that very evening, as he had watched him mount the steps of his home.
• Finally, there returned upon the confused mind of the young wife the recollection that she was on her way homeward, and that the packet would sail in three-quarters of an hour.

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