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/rɪkˈaʊnt/ /rˌikˈaʊnt/ Listen

Recount

verb

Narrate or give a detailed account of. Synonyms: narrate, recite, tell. "The father told a story to his child"

Count again.

noun

An additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election.

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... now recount the conditions when Ezekiel Webster and his second wife took their wedding trip in a "one hoss shay" to ...

— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn

... Italy, and in order to understand the conditions of the problem which there awaited Theodoric, we must briefly recount the chief events which had happened in that peninsula since Attila departed from untaken Rome in compliance with the ...

— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin

... and deaths of the innumerable Buddhist heroes and saints who, after so many residences on earth, in the hells, in the dewalokas, have at last reached emancipation. They recollect their adventures; they recount copious portions of their experience stretching ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... we have begun to recount the practical operations by which our Liberal friends work for the removal of definite evils, and in which if we do not join them they are apt to grow impatient with us, how can we pass over that very interesting operation of this kind,—the attempt to enable a man to marry ...

— Culture and Anarchy • Matthew Arnold

... It is needless to recount the joyful feelings with which Haydn received the news of his appointment, offering as it did the most exceptional opportunities for prosecuting his beloved art. Not even in his wildest dreams could he have pictured such magnificence as that which greeted him on ...

— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham

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