RECOUNTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recounting mean? 

• RECOUNTING (noun)
  The noun RECOUNTING has 1 sense:

1. an act of narration

  Familiarity information: RECOUNTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECOUNTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An act of narration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

recounting; relation; telling

Context example:

his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable

Hypernyms ("recounting" is a kind of...):

narration; recital; yarn (the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events)

Derivation:

recount (narrate or give a detailed account of)

 Context examples 

And therefore, in recounting the numbers of those who have been killed in battle, I cannot but think you have said the thing which is not.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Next morning, we had a note from Miss Smith, recounting shortly and accurately the very incidents which I had seen, but the pith of the letter lay in the postscript: I am sure that you will respect my confidence, Mr. Holmes, when I tell you that my place here has become difficult, owing to the fact that my employer has proposed marriage to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)