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But for him as a student of life all motherhood must be guarded as such--even if it be guarded in such a fashion that it can never recur, which is our duty to the feeble-minded mother If there be any reader who is unacquainted with M. Maeterlinck's "Life of the Bee," let him or her study that instructive book.

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  1. intransitive verb To happen, come up, or show up again or repeatedly.
  2. intransitive verb To return to one's attention or memory.
  3. intransitive verb To return in thought or discourse.

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  • Only once again in all the strifes of my career did the thought of suicide recur, and then it was but for a moment, to be put aside as unworthy a strong soul. —  Annie Besant
  • If the error does not recur, a damaged preferences file was the cause. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • Is it surprising that the same ideas recur--and, recurring, sometimes escape the shrewd eye of Punch's investigation department It has already been said that to Sir John Tenniel it has fallen to prevent the repetition of subjects in respect to the cartoons. —  The History of "Punch"
  • Four times did the same kind of attack recur, and four times was it met by the same remedy, and with like success! —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
  • But for him as a student of life all motherhood must be guarded as such--even if it be guarded in such a fashion that it can never recur, which is our duty to the feeble-minded mother If there be any reader who is unacquainted with M. Maeterlinck's "Life of the Bee," let him or her study that instructive book. —  Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
 

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  1. Latin recurrere : re-, re- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French recourer, recorir, recourre, recourir, French recourir =Provencal recorre =Catalan recorrer =Spanish recurrir =Portuguese recorrer =Italian ricorrere, from Latin recurrere, run back, return, recur, from re-, back, + currere, run: see current.
 

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