Recount vs Recite - What's the difference?
recount | recite |
To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.
To rehearse; to enumerate.
To repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience
To list or enumerate something
To deliver a recitation
As verbs the difference between recount and recite
is that recount is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of while recite is to repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience.As a noun recount
is retelling, narration, rendering.recount
English
Etymology 1
From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.Verb
(en verb)- The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
- to recount one's blessings
