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recounting

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re·count  (r-kount)
tr.v. re·count·ed, re·count·ing, re·counts
1. To narrate the facts or particulars of. See Synonyms at describe.
2. To enumerate.
[Middle English recounten, from Old French reconter : re-, re- + conter, relate; see count1.]
re·countal n.
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Noun1.recountingrecounting - an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
telling, relation
recital, yarn, narration - the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant"


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If, I said, he makes a set speech and we make another recounting all the advantages of being just, and he answers and we rejoin, there must be a numbering and measuring of the goods which are claimed on either side, and in the end we shall want judges to decide; but if we proceed in our enquiry as we lately did, by making admissions to one another, we shall unite the offices of judge and advocate in our own persons.
The Republic by Plato View in context
Such was the conclusion of this adventure of the bird, and of the dialogue occasioned by it; which we could not help recounting to our reader, though it happened some years before that stage or period of time at which our history is now arrived.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
And therefore, in recounting the numbers of those who have been killed in battle, I cannot but think you have said the thing which is not.
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