recapitulant

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adjective

recapitulating

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Meanings

adjectiverecapitulant (comparative more recapitulant, superlative most recapitulant)

comparative more recapitulant · superlative most recapitulant

  1. recapitulating

    How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-strings: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

    1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 139

Origin

From recapitulate + -ant.

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APA

recapitulant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recapitulant

MLA

“recapitulant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recapitulant. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recapitulant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recapitulant.

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