Recollects vs Remember - What's the difference?
recollects | remember |
(recollect)
To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
(obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
To compose oneself.
* Dryden
* 1847 , Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain (page 52)
To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To memorize; to put something into memory.
To not forget (to do something required)
To convey greetings from.
(obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively)
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
* Chapman
* , Secret Parting, lines 5-7
To engage in the process of recalling memories.
As a noun recollects
is .As a verb remember is
to recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.recollects
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Verb
(head)recollect
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Etymology 1
FromVerb
(en verb)- I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I was there.
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- The Tyrian queen Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; then recollected stood.
- The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.
remember
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Alternative forms
* remembre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)citation
citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.
- My friends remembered me of home.
- ''But soon, remembering her how brief the whole
- ''Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,
- ''Her set gaze gathered
