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recollection noun [ ˌrɛkəˈlɛkʃ(ə)n ]

• the action or faculty of remembering or recollecting something.
• "to the best of my recollection no one ever had a bad word to say about him"
Origin: late 16th century (denoting the action of gathering things together again): from French or medieval Latin recollectio(n- ), from the verb recolligere ‘gather again’ (see recollect1).


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