recountment

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noun

recital or utterance

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Meanings

nounrecountment (plural recountments)

plural recountments

  1. obsoleterecital or utterance

    When from the first to last betwixt us two / Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed, / As how I came into that desert place:

    c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

Origin

From recount + -ment.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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