recollection
/ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/ noun B2- The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory.
- The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance. · Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.
- That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence. · One of his earliest recollections.
- A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.
Plural recollections
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I had some vague recollection of an explanation at the time of the Adventure of the Greek Interpreter.
Except the recollection of the line of politics his father had adopted, and which might interfere, unless he acted with the greatest prudence, with his own career, Gérard de Villefort was as happy as a man could be.
“And one which will go far to efface the recollection of his father’s conduct,” added the incorrigible marquise.
Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantès, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
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