recapitulant

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See also: récapitulant

English

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Etymology

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From recapitulate +‎ -ant.

Adjective

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recapitulant (comparative more recapitulant, superlative most recapitulant)

  1. recapitulating
    • 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 139:
      How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-strings: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

Latin

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Verb

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recapitulant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of recapitulō