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- noun One who
recounts ; theteller of a tale or experience.
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Examples
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The outdated punch-card voting meant that the original machine count discounted every vote where the punch didn't dislocate all 4 corners of the hole, when the intention of the voter was very clear to a hand-recounter.
Bill Clinton: Are Caucuses More Important Than Primaries? 2009
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Thus, if a ballot had a “hanging chad,” a recount official might decide that the voter intended to vote for the candidate, but failed to properly punch out the chad; so the recounter would award the candidate a vote from the “spoiled” ballot.
Think Progress » Katrina Speech: State and Local Officials Blamed, Not Listened To 2005
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And were a civilized nation engaged with barbarians, who observed no rules even of war, the former must also suspend their observance of them, where they no longer serve to any purpose; and must render every action or recounter as bloody and pernicious as possible to the first aggressors.
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And there was a recounter, for the bushment brake on the Romans, and slew and hew down the Romans, and forced the Romans to flee and return, whom the noble knights chased unto their tents.
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And there were all the knights of the Round Table, [save] only those that were prisoners or slain at a recounter.
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Knight, Sir Beaumains slew him in a recounter with his spear, his name was Sir Percard.
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And at the first recounter, said Sir Kay, he smote me down from my horse and hurt me passing sore; and when my fellow, Sir Dinadan, saw me smitten down and hurt he would not revenge me, but fled from me; and thus he departed.
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In a word, they have been judged to be works of art in which certain very general ideas and principles derived from Socrates are expanded, put into shape, and often greatly altered by the alleged recorder, or rather dramatic recounter.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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And you will note him historian of the life of the people; not mere recounter of court scandals and chronicler of wars: conscious, too, of the law of cycles; -- all told, something a truer historian than we have seen too much of in the West.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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And there was a recounter, for the bushment brake on the Romans, and slew and hew down the Romans, and forced the Romans to flee and return, whom the noble knights chased unto their tents.
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