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Definition of Recollects
1. recollect [v] - See also: recollect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recollects
Literary usage of Recollects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First Establishment of the Faith in New France by Chrestien Le Clercq, John Gilmary Shea (1882)
"We have seen with what repeated instances the Canadians had called for the
Recollects from the restoration of the colony. ..."
2. First Establishment of the Faith in New France by Chrestien Le Clercq, Zénobe Membré, Anastase Douay (1881)
"Among other things he exposed the necessity in which the country was of a greater
number of missionaries; that, indeed, the three Recollects ..."
3. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"to the wars, and when he only recollects pleasant things about them; but Stephen
Perkins I did n't see, even as the train went by. ..."
4. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1877)
"The Recollects established a large monastery at Quebec; and the jealousy which
sprung up between them and the Jesuits, as well as the growing freedom of the ..."
5. Catalogue of the Library Belonging to Mr. Thomas W. Field by Thomas Warren Field (1875)
"of the Recollects, to which order Father ... The author lost the support of his
own brethren of the order of Recollects by neglecting or refusing to return ..."
6. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... with a solemnity which »hows that he recollects its importance and its author.
under his instruction. ly heard, even by his remotest auditors, and ! ..."
7. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1884)
"THE JESUITS, Recollects, AND THE INDIANS. BY JOHN GILMARY SHEA, LL.D. AT the time
of the discovery of this portion of the northern continent, the missionary ..."
8. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"... when it is felt to be that minute remembrance, with which affection recollects
every circumstance that could have affected a beloved ..."
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