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recapitulant

recapitulant adjective: recapitulating.

Adjective

recapitulant (comparative more recapitulant, superlative most recapitulant)

  1. recapitulating
    • How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-strings: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 139

Forms of recapitulant

comparativemore recapitulant
superlativemost recapitulant

Origin of recapitulant

From recapitulate + -ant.

Questions about recapitulant

What does recapitulant mean?
Recapitulant means recapitulating.
What part of speech is recapitulant?
Recapitulant is an adjective.

Words near recapitulant in the dictionary

  1. recapitalizing
  2. recapitate
  3. recapitated
  4. recapitates
  5. recapitating
  6. recapitulant
  7. recapitulate
  8. recapitulated
  9. recapitulates
  10. recapitulateth
  11. recapitulating

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