Definition of Recounting

1. Noun. An act of narration. "His endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"

Exact synonyms: Relation, Telling
Generic synonyms: Narration, Recital, Yarn
Derivative terms: Recount, Relate, Tell

Definition of Recounting

1. Verb. (present participle of recount) ¹

2. Noun. An act in which something is recounted ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recounting

1. recount [v] - See also: recount

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recounting

recorrected
recorrecting
recorrection
recorrections
recorrects
recouch
recouched
recouching
recouer
recount
recountal
recountals
recounted
recounter
recounters
recounting
recountings
recountment
recountments
recounts
recoup
recoupable
recoupe
recouped
recouper
recoupers
recouping
recouple
recoupled
recouples

Literary usage of Recounting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Collection of Leading Cases on the Law of Elections in the United States by Frederick Charles Brightly (1871)
"(Issue and recounting of ballots.) to re-assert that no greater danger exists to the ... [7«8ue and recounting of ballots.] An issue to a jury will not be ..."

2. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"«ml that you ¡nul Г may return to our farms to enjoy the fruits of it, »•«pending our old age in recounting to our children the toils and dangers we have ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He was buried in the chapel of the convent of St. James in Paris, and a marble stone beside the grave bears a lone inscription recounting his virtues, ..."

4. The Lombard Communes: A History of the Republics of North Italy by William Francis Thomas Butler (1906)
"... succession of real historians with an insight into political affairs and a skill in recounting events not unworthy of the remarkable facts they relate. ..."

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