Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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Chide; reprove; restrain; punish; silence; stop; put an end to. 1553/1583 The sacred stealth of Boy and Girl / Rebuke it if we can

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Remember; recollect; bring to mind again. 1327/1328 The Mem'ry of the Sun / Not Any can recall

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Retreating; withdrawing; moving back. 129/142 An hour in chrysalis to pass – / Then gay above receding grass / A Butterfly to go!

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Secure; already received; [word play] documented as true; certified on paper; verified as real. 1608/1680 The Ecstasy to guess, / Were a receipted Bliss / If Grace could talk

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Get; obtain; gain; procure; attain; achieve. 1420/1450 inquiry … will receive reply / When Flesh and Spirit sunder / In Death's immediately

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Performance; enactment; act of reading aloud; public exhibition; staging in front of an audience. 741/776 Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day … Other Tragedy / Perish in the Recitation

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Pronounce; say; vocalize; utter; repeat; intone; sing; quote; read aloud. 313/283 the Prayer … That scalding one – Sabacthini – / Recited fluent – here

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Count; enumerate; compute; total; calculate; number. 128/140 Reckon the morning's flagons up … Tell me what time the weaver sleeps … Who counts the wampum of the night

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Knowledge; remembrance; positive identification; acknowledgment of identity. 390/556 the postponeless Creature … Enters – with a “You know me – Sir”? … and Certain Recognition … Carries one … to God

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Know; recollect; remember; recall; be familiar with; confess acquaintance with; acknowledge as previously encountered. 385/651 Recognizing in Procession / Ones We former knew

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Remember; recall; retain in memory; bring to mind again; keep from forgetting. 768/493 When I hoped, I recollect / Just the place I stood … Nature hesitate – before / Memory and I

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Memory; remembrance; act of recalling to mind. 367/406 Over and over, like a Tune – / The Recollection plays

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Knowledge; recognition; memorial; mortal memory; human history; official documentation; historical chronicle; earthly annals; proof resulting from a written account. 741/776 Other Tragedy / Perish in the Recitation … “Romeo” left no Record / Of his Juliet … In the Human heart

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Write; document; chronicle; make known; make a historical account of; preserve in written form for the benefit of future generations. 553/670 One Crucifixion is recorded – only – / How many be / Is not affirmed of … History

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Unknown; unattested; forgotten. 311/291 Acres of Joints, where Harvests were, / Recordless, but for them

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Regain; achieve; attain; arrive at; reach again; make it as far as; succeed in returning to. 619/685 The great storm is over – / Four – have recovered the Land

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Recreated; reenacted; perpetually renewed; constantly resurrected. 1471/1505 Recurrent to the After Mind / That Massacre of Air

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Rosy; ruddy; vermillion; crimson; scarlet; blood-colored; bloody or bleeding. 1059/1083 If the Tune … Have a tint too Red … Suffer the Vermillion – / Death is the Wealth / Of the Poorest Bird.

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Blushingly; with a rosy flush; by means of heightened color. 430/388 I'd so much joy – I told it – Red – / Opon my simple Cheek – / I felt it publish – in my eye … I walked – as wings – my body bore – / The feet … Unnescessary … As boots … to Birds

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Vermillion; crimson; scarlet. 365/401 Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? … Red – is the Fire's common tint

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Robin; thrush; bird with ruddy chest and abdomen feathers; [fig.] humble creature; lowly being. 763/486 All crumpled was the cheek / No other kiss had known / Than flake of snow, divided with / The Redbreast of the Barn … Mother – in the Grave … Father – on the Sea

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Liberate; rescue; save; deliver; free; ransom; atone for; compensate for; make up for; release from captivity; loose from bondage. 652/456 A Prison gets to be a friend … Liberty … Avoided – like a Dream – / Too wide for any night but Heaven – / If That – indeed – redeem

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Salvation; immortality; [fig.] Heaven; God; Christ. 401/675 One would as soon … violate a Star … Of freckled Human Nature … Redemption – Brittle Lady – / Be so – ashamed of Thee

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Diminish; decrease; depreciate; devalue; cause to seem small and unimportant in comparison. 464/699 Judgment … Presumptuous of Your Place … excel – / Whose invitation – Your's reduced / Until it showed too small

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Rough range of rocks lying near the surface of the sea; natural wall of rock or coral submerged in the ocean; dangerous underwater outcropping capable of wrecking a ship. 708/784 A Reef – crawled easy from the Sea / Eats off the Brittle Line