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recountment

recountment noun: recital or utterance.

Noun

recountment (plural recountments)

  1. (obsolete) recital or utterance
    • When from the first to last betwixt us two / Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed, / As how I came into that desert place:c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of recountment

pluralrecountments

Origin of recountment

From recount + -ment.

Questions about recountment

What does recountment mean?
Recountment means recital or utterance.
What part of speech is recountment?
Recountment is a noun.
What is the plural of recountment?
The plural of recountment is recountments.

Words near recountment in the dictionary

  1. recounters
  2. recounteth
  3. recounting
  4. recountings
  5. recountless
  6. recountment
  7. recountments
  8. recounts
  9. recoup
  10. recoupability
  11. recoupable

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