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What does recapitulation mean?

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  1. A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
  2. (music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
  3. (biology) The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.
  4. (theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.
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The work in which he summarizes his perspective, is a recapitulation of various articles published earlier, but here we see much more cohesion.
In 1904, he published a book on adolescence, advocating a new theory of child development based on evolutionary recapitulation.
Yet, like Darwin and many science textbooks and evolutionist books for laymen, the editor of this journal endorses embryonic recapitulation.
The candidate concluded his recitation with an abbreviated recapitulation of the subdivisions of the five principal topics.
And then how they would chuckle and cachinnate, when the rival blackguards were out of earshot, at the recapitulation of their ineffable wit.
This essay, like much of the book, is derivative, little more than a recapitulation of facts better explored by literary scholars.

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