recountment
English
Etymology
recount + -ment
Noun
recountment (plural recountments)
- (obsolete) recital
- 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, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- When from the first to last betwixt us two / Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed, / As how I came into that desert place:
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for recountment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)