We have no meanings for "mere recital" in our records yet.
1 Your Honor, literally I shrink from the mere recital of this dastardly crime.
2 The mere recital of some of these will suffice to make this evident.
3 As usual, he recited his wrongs; and, as usual, the mere recital caused him to perspire.
4 The mere recital of the most salient features of that sinister theme would suffice to fill a volume.
5 She broke off hurriedly, wiping her lips as if the mere recital of the sordid facts had stained them with blood.
6 The mere recital of his case had brought him again into the bewilderment of that mental anguish he had gone through.
7 Well, my mother's mere recital , last night, after you had retired, of what has happened here, made my hair stand on end.
8 Why, the mere recital of the briefing I underwent before I switched races betrays the fear in the heart of the Southern black.
9 The mere recital of these facts, indeed, gives but a faint impression of the actual dawn of social hope across the St. George's Channel.
10 Being of this sort they have no need of further testimony; the mere recital of them is sufficient, and they at once win credence.
11 Even if I felt at liberty to discuss it, I don't know what I could tell you beyond a mere recital of dry detail.
12 But the delegates are looking for something of a far different tone than a mere recital of crime and a fall from affluence to penury.
Grammar, pronunciation and more
This collocation consists of: Mere recital through the time