recitation
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5.3
- noun
- /ˌrɛsɪˈteɪʃən/
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recitación
- After weeks of practice, he confidently delivered his recitation at the annual school assembly.
- rote recitation
- oral recitation
- recitation of prayer
One, either the bare recitation of the facts or a bright line legal rule.
- One, either the bare recitation of the facts or a bright line legal rule.
- They're pissed that their actual recitation of his remarks was messed with by these losers over in the comms department.
- We have heard many times recitation of Aristotle's claim that virtues of character are acquired through habituation.
Examples
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If invited, he gives a recitation of one of his poems.
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Prayers, fasting, confession, atonement, and the recitation of the rosary all played an important role in it.
Academic text (1990) -
Now, let us have a recitation.
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- Would you like me to give you a recitation?
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Did someone call for a recitation?
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This is supposed to be a unison recitation.
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Education will become more than memorization and recitation for students who have learned how to think, question, and analyze.
Academic text (1992) -
I tell my students that in true recitation, we're possessed; we are the medium for the writer's voice.
Academic text (1999) -
The poetry and its haunting recitation seemed to fill the room, leaving no space for any distracting activity.
Academic text (1997) -
They will be acknowledged almost first in the recitation of the conferring of degrees.
Synonyms
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1.4
An event where someone speaks aloud from a poem or book to an audience
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4.3
A public performance of memorized poems or speeches
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Recitation comes from the verb recite and the old Latin recitare, which meant 'to say out loud' or 'say again'. So a recitation is like a person standing and saying a poem or passage from memory, which is why we use it for a memorized performance.