Recollection
[,rekə'lekʃ(ə)n] or [,rɛkə'lɛkʃən]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence.
(n.) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
Edited by Daniel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Remembrance, reminiscence, memory.
Checked by Lionel
Examples
- It would be done so quickly and so naturally, that I daresay the young man himself has no recollection of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- My illness has made me think It has given me leisure and calmness for serious recollection. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- A sudden recollection had flashed on her this moment--she had not money enough for undertaking a long journey. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I tingle again from head to foot as my recollection turns that corner, and my pen shakes in my hand. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The picture of a different state of things does not always function to aid ingenious observation and recollection to find a way out and on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As to deploring her misfortunes, she appeared to have entirely lost the recollection of ever having had any. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They begin to close again, and I begin to nod, as the recollection rises fresh upon me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- My recollection is that Admiral Porter was the first one to whom I mentioned it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He could not even shake off the recollection that she had been there; that her arms had been round him, once--if never again. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Did not the recollection of the heroic simplicity of the Homeric life nerve you up? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But no such recollection befriended her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Lily flushed with the recollection of certain rainy Sundays at Bellomont and with the Dorsets. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In our interview he told me he had rations enough to hold out for some time--my recollection is two weeks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Consecrate your existence to the recollection of James Steerforth's tenderness--he would have made you his serving-man's wife, would he not? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He took the hint at once, for the fist had been too often impressed upon his body not to be deeply impressed upon his recollection. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There was that jumble in my thoughts and recollections, that I had lost the clear arrangement of time and distance. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They are to guide and organize further observations, recollections, and experiments. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There she would behold the tomb of her parents, and the territory filled with recollections of her father's glory. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I felt a burning glow mount to my face; for bitter and agitating recollections were awakened by the allusion to marriage. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But we must not let the recollections of this good fellow cause us to diverge from the principal history. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Painful recollections will intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Mary was in her usual corner, laughing over Mrs. Piozzi's recollections of Johnson, and looked up with the fun still in her face. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But his feelings are not in the least changed or oldened, and his love remains as fresh as a man's recollections of boyhood are. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But the twins are a great tie; and to me, with my recollections, of papa and mama, these transactions are very painful. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That the thoughts were self-matured, that she had any recollections or speculations about her parents, he could not fancy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The great remembrance by which that time is marked in my mind, seems to have swallowed up all lesser recollections, and to exist alone. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Excuse my dwelling on these melancholy recollections of departed worth; you won't see a man like my uncle every day in the week. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A thousand homely scenes and recollections crowded on him--in which he always saw her good and beautiful. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The certainty of meeting him had not been checked by any of those recollections that might not unreasonably have alarmed her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- To help my memory I kept a book in which I would write up, from time to time, my recollections of all I had read since last posting it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Nolan