Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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Observation; notice; [fig.] sight; view. 1278/1225 At leisure was the Sun … A little from remark withdrawn – / The Twilight spoke the Spire … The Act of evening fell remark, v. [Fr. < L. re- again + OE mearcian, destine, appoint, observe, remark.] Say; comment; observe; state; mention. 45/62 We – prone to periphrasis, / Remark that Birds have fled! remedilessly, adv. [see remedy.] Incurably; [fig.] irreversibly; irrevocably; certainly; surely; unalterably; inevitably; inescapably; unavoidably. 1675/1692 Of this is Day composed … A Revelry … Whose Pomps … penury for Glory / Remedilessly leave remedy, n. [AFr < L. re- again + medērī, heal.] (webplay: natural). Medicine; antidote; cure; solution; relief; assuagement; alleviation. 1723/1778 a bird … trod … Upon a pile of wind … Nature had left behind … this untoward transport / His remedy for care remember (-ed, -ing, -s), v. [OFr < late L, re-, again + memor, mindful.] (webplay: brave, days, esteem, everlasting, fact, forgotten, help, keep, lest, mind, notice, old, paid, place, power, received, sabbath-day, same, sake, since, something, thing, think, trust, what, within).

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Think about; care about; think of fondly. 499/369 In Everlasting Keepsake … Remembering ourselves, we trust / Yet Blesseder than We

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Remaining in the mind; retained in consciousness. 325/328 But the Ones who overcame most times / Wear nothing commoner than Snow … “Defeat”, an Outgrown Anguish, / Remembered – as the Mile … And all we said – was / SAVED!

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Bringing to mind; recalling. 33/9 [Oh if remembering were forgetting] / Then I remember not. remembrance, n. [Fr., see remember, v.] (webplay: assisting, days, memory, praise, sabbath-day, something, taste).

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Memory; things that one remembers; images or facts retained in memory. 1182/1234

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Phrase. “Remind of”: cause to remember; force to recall; impel to recollect; bring to mind again; bring to conscious thought. 490/1058 To One denied to drink … To lead Him to the Well … Remind Him, would it not, somewhat / Of His condemned lip? remiss, n. [Fr. remettre; see remit, v.] Decrease; lessening; reduction; diminution; decline; dwindling; slacking. 1709/1713 With no remiss of triumph / The autumn started home remit (-s, -ted), v. [L. re-, back + mittěre, send.]

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Reimburse; pay back. 1153/1265 By that bleak exultation / I won as near as this / Thy privilege of dying / [Remit] me this [and this] remnant, n. [OFr remenant; see remain, v.] Remains; trace; residue; remainder. 1774/1182 Too happy Time dissolves itself / And leaves no remnant by remorse, n. [OFr < Late L. remordēre, vex, disturb < re-, again + mordēre, bite, sting, attack.] (webplay: feeling, sense).

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Regret; guilt; pain of conscience. 744/781 Remorse – is Memory – awake remote (-er, -est), adj. [L. remōt-us < re-, again + movēre, to move.] (webplay: affects, causes, color, future, immediate, mind, move, near, people, small, star).

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Separate; distinct; apart from the current situation; unconnected to the subject at hand 1128/1150 These are the Nights that Beetles love – / From Eminence remote

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Take off; discard; get rid of. 612/444 I could no more remove / Than I could coax a Leech away / Or make a dragon move

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Resign; yield; submit; cede; give in. 678/482 Montcalm … Rendered with a smile … said he – “My own Surrender / Liberty's forestall

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Restore; revive; bring back. 561/550 Some – gone patient long – / At length, renew their smile renewing, verbal adj. [see renew, v.] Replenishing; regenerating; [fig.] perpetual; ceaseless; in constant motion. 1463/1489 A Route of Evanescence / With a [renewing] Wheel … And every Blossom on the Bush / Adjusts it's tumbled Head renounce (-d, renounched), v. [Fr < L. renuntiāre, announce, proclaim, disclaim, protest against < re-, against + nuntiāre, make known, report.] (webplay: cares, land). Deny; reject; disclaim; abandon; relinquish; give up; turn away from; refuse to acknowledge or partake of. 214/207 When butterflies renounce their drams, / I shall but drink the more renovate (-s), v. [L. re-, again + novāre, make new.] (webplay: heart, world). Change; alter; transform; renew; regenerate; refresh. 1563/1611 The human heart is told / Of nothing – / “Nothing” is the force / That renovates the World renown, n. [AFr renomer, make famous < L. re- + nomināre, to name.] (webplay: distinguished, fame, great, king, men, name).

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Knowledge; notice; observation; detection. 1570/1600 Angels have that modest way / To screen them from renown

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Superior; surpassing; intense; profound; severe; extreme; exceptional. 422/415 Life – went out … Requiring in the Quench – // A Power of Renowned Cold rent, n. [OFr < L. *rendita; see render, v.] (webplay: tenant). Monthly sum of money owed to a property owner for the use of housing. 1356/1369 The Rat is the concisest Tenant. / He pays no Rent. rent (-s), v. [see rent, n.] (webplay: house).

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Tear; split; burst; fracture; rupture; [fig.] exceed; surpass. 963/824 Contentment's quiet Suburb – / Affliction cannot stay / [In Acre – or Location – / It rents Immensity] renunciation, n. [see renounce, v.] (webplay: world). Asceticism; self-discipline; self-denial; abstention from worldly pleasures; strict control of mortal passions; refusal to indulge in gratification of physical desires. 527/404 To put this World down … 'Tis the Scarlet way // Trodden with straight renunciation / By the Son of God reorganize (-s), v. [L. re-, again + L. organ-um < Gr. 'instrument, organ, musical instrument'.] (webplay: compound). Change; alter; transform; regenerate; cause to be reevaluated; force to be reexamined. 906/830 The Dying – as it were a Hight / Reorganizes Estimate … 'Tis Compound Vision repair (-s), n. [see repair, v.] Process of fixing something. 360/640 Obliterate the Etchings / Too Costly for repairs. repair (-ed, -ing), v. [OFr reparer or L. re-, again + parāre, make ready, put in order, prepare.]

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Fix; make whole; restore to a good or sound state, after injury or decay. 1196/1238 Of retrospect the Arrow / That power to repair. repast, n. [OFr < late L. re-, again + pascěre, to feed.]

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Feast; banquet; [fig.] celebration. 1709/1713 The autumn started home … In supplements of Purple / An adequate repast repay, v. [OFr re-, back + payer, pay.] To make return in favor or deed. 681/862 Soil of Flint, if steadily tilled / Will refund (repay) the Hand. repeal, n. [see repeal, v.] 528/411 Mine by the Grave's Repeal / Titled – Confirmed. repeal (-ed), v. [AFr re- + appeler, appeal.] Revoked or abrogated. 981/801 The individuals do / Repealed from observation. repealless, adj. [see repeal, v.] Endless; without cancellation; from which nothing is erased. 409/545 God can summon every face / On his Repealless – List. repeat (-ed), v. [Fr. < L. re-, again + petěre, to attack, demand.]

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Encore; reiterate; perform again; replicate daily. 627/696 The fine – impalpable Array – / That swaggers on the eye / Like Cleopatra's Company / Repeated – in the sky repeated, verbal adj. [see repeat, v.] Twinkling; sparkling; [fig.] steady; incessant; perpetual. 932v/1062v [Though their repeated Grace / Elicit no reply] repel (-s), v. [L. re-, again + pellěre, to drive.] Disgust; repulse; rebuff; drive away; fill with distaste. 782v/885v The finest Honey – curdled – / [Repels the healthy] Bee repentance, n. [Fr. repentir, re- + L. poenitēre.] The act of repenting or the state of being sorrowful or regretful on account of past conduct or actions. 23/12 Grant that repentance solemn / May seize upon his mind. repetition, n. [OFr repeticion, or L. repetition-em < repetěre, re- + petěre, to attack.] To repeat the same word or the same sense in different words for the purpose of conveying significance or making a lasting impression. 1152/1148 Though a statelier Tale / Grown in the Repetition hoary. repine, v. [re- + OE pínian < L. pæna, punishment, pain .] To long discontentedly for something, to fret. 5/4 Yet do I not repine / Knowing that Bird of Mine … / Will return replace (-d, replacing), v. [re- + ME place < Fr. place.] To put again in a former place; to substitute. 302/408 When Orchestra is dumb / The Violin is Baize replaced. replenish (-ed), v. [OFr < L. plēnns, full.]

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To fill a persons heart or mind with some feeling or occupation. 972/839 To our Opposite / New Horizons – They embellish (replenish). replevy (-s), v. [OFr.] Restore; restitute; return to the owner. 1399v/1455v That comprehension fluctuates / And There – [Replevys] – Here reply, n. [see reply, v.] (webplay: ply, words). Answer; response. 932/1062 My best Acquaintances are those / With Whom I spoke no Word…. / Although to their Celestial Call / I failed to make reply / My constant – reverential Face / Sufficient Courtesy reply (-ing, replied, replies), v. [OFr replier, to fold again, turn back, reply.] (webplay: answer, God, man, said, send). Answer; respond 1152/1148 Mercy of the Almighty begging / Tell his Arrow sent / God it is said replies in Person / When the cry is meant report (-s), n. [see report, v.] (webplay: answer, back, discovered, land, mentioned, publicly, spoken, tell, wisdom).

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Rumor; slight chance. 510/355 But, most, like Chaos – Stopless – cool / Without a Chance, or Spar / Or even a Report of Land / To justify – Despair. report (-ed, -s), v. [AFr < L. re- + portāre, to carry.] (acts, sound, tell).

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Tell of; give an account of; convey information about someone. 679/773 Neither if He visit Other / Do He dwell – or Nay –know I / But – Instinct [Report] Him / Immortality

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Calm; leisure; peacefulness; absence of activity. 152/182 On their side, what Repose!

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Comfort; alleviation; assistance; ease from some discomfort; removal or lessening of some cause of distress; deliverance from what is burdensome. 1473/1506 Time compassion took / Arks of Reprieve he offered to us

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To demand or to request. 67/112 To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need. requirement (-s), n. [see require, v.] Demands, Requisitions, Ideals. 732/857 She rose to His Requirement – dropt / The play things of Her Life. requisite, adj. [L. requīsītus < re- + qucerěre, seek, ask.] To be required by circumstance or the nature of things. 1073/1081 But Meat within, is requisite / To squirrels and to Me. requisite, n. [see requisite, adj.] That which is necessary, something indispensable. 1132/1143 The stolid seconds glow / One requisite has Fire that lasts. requisition, n. [Fr. réquisition or L. re- + qucerěre, seek, ask.] Demand or application made as of right. 1602/1664 Of other Myths / Your requisition be. re-royalize (-d), verbal adj. [see royal, adj.] Reinstate; crown again; return to full power; restore to royal status; [fig.] resurrect; raise from the dead. 833v/273v Do those at Sacrament // Commemorate Dishonor / Or love … Until it bend as low as Death / [Re-royalized], above? rescind (-ed), v. [L. re- + scinděre, to cut, split, divide.] Sever; cut off; [fig.] suppress the memory of. 1344/1382 Some have solaced the longing … Some – rescinded the Wrench rescinded, verbal adj. [see rescind, v.] Previous; former; onetime; long gone. 1416/1365 She will point to sighing / To her rescinded bud. rescued, adj. [OFr re-, again + ex-, out + quatěre, shake.] Saved; delivered; liberated. 313/283 I should have been too saved – I see – / Too rescued – Fear to dim to me. research, n. [Fr. recerche.] A diligent search or investigation directed to the discovery of facts or principles, ie. information. 1241/1261 The Scientists of Faith / His research has but just begun. resemblance, n. [AFr. < re- + semblar < L. similus, like. ] Likeness; similitude; either of external form or of qualities. 907/831 Until – Resemblance Perfect / Yourself, for His pursuit. resemble (resembling, -s), v. [OFr re- + sembler < L. similus, like.] (webplay: Life of Mine, The Claws that clung like lifeless Gloves).

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Imitate, be in likeness of qualities or features. 648/762 Just that You should see … Life's Bliss extol thro[excel in] / Imitating [More resembling] You resent (-s), v. [Fr. < L. re- + sentīre, feel.]