recollection
11recollection — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ clear, distinct, vivid ▪ dim, faint, hazy, vague ▪ earliest ▪ …
12recollection — rec|ol|lec|tion [ˌrekəˈlekʃən] n formal 1.) something from the past that you remember ▪ My earliest recollections are of my mother bending over my cot. 2.) [U] an act of remembering something have no recollection (of sth) (=not remember) ▪ I have …
13recollection — noun formal 1 (U) an act of remembering something, especially something you try to remember: have no recollection (=not remember): I have no recollection of ever having received the money. | to the best of my recollection (=used when you are… …
14recollection — The act of recalling something to mind. In evidence, a person may use almost anything to refresh his recollection of an event in order to testify and the evidence then is his testimony not the document which has refreshed his recollection. A… …
15recollection — n. 1) to have a recollection of 2) a hazy, vague; painful; vivid recollection * * * [ˌrekə lekʃ(ə)n] painful vague vivid recollection a hazy to have a recollection of …
16recollection — [[t]re̱kəle̱kʃ(ə)n[/t]] recollections N VAR If you have a recollection of something, you remember it. Pat has vivid recollections of the trip, and remembers some of the frightening aspects I had forgotten... He had no recollection of the crash …
17recollection — UK [ˌrekəˈlekʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms recollection : singular recollection plural recollections a) [uncountable] the ability to remember something that has happened To the best of my recollection, we ve never met. b) [countable] a memory of… …
18RÉCOLLECTION — n. f. T. de Spiritualité Action par laquelle on se recueille. Profonde récollection. Récollection intérieure. Ils se sont réunis en une journée de récollection. Il est vieux …
19récollection — (ré ko lè ksion) s. f. 1° Terme de spiritualité. Sorte de méditation par laquelle on se recueille et l on rappelle toutes ses idées pour se les rendre présentes. • Il faut être libre de toute inquiétude, de toute passion forte ; en un mot, il …
20recollection — n. 1 the act or power of recollecting. 2 a thing recollected. 3 a a person s memory (to the best of my recollection). b the time over which memory extends (happened within my recollection). Derivatives: recollective adj. Etymology: F recollection …
