Definition of "recitations" [recitations]

• Plural form of recitation. (noun)

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• "It's a very conservative place, where Shajarian sang recitations from the Koran as a child."
• "He knew that in Japanese recitations the most terrifying scene came when the villain, having knocked the hero down, takes off his zori and ceremoniously strikes the fallen hero, for then men like Kamejiro gasped, knowing that only death could avenge this ultimate insult."
• "His early spoken-word recitations, delivered with a surfeit of style and political weight, were instrumental in seeding the ground for hip-hop, and his ideas—particularly those laced throughout "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," a song-poem recorded in 1970—continue to linger."