recountment

English

Etymology

From recount +‎ -ment.

Noun

recountment (plural recountments)

  1. (obsolete) recital or utterance
    • 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, (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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