reconnaissance, n.f., gratitude, thankfulness; recognition; examination; acknowledgment, confession; reward, return; recognizance; (milit., nav.) reconnoitering, reconnoitering party. Avoir de la —; to be grateful. Témoigner sa —; to testify one’s gratitude. Faire une —; to reconnoiter. — d’enfant; acknowledgment of a child. — de prêteur sur gages; pawn-broker’s ticket.
reconnaissant, -e, adj., grateful, thankful. — de; thankful for.
reconnaître, v.a., to recognize, to know again; to know; to identify; to find out, to discover; to acknowledge, to confess, to admit, to allow; to be grateful; (milit.) to reconnoiter, to explore, to observe. Je ne le reconnais plus; he has grown out of my recollection. Se faire —; to make one’s self known. On a reconnu sa trahison; his treachery was discovered. — un enfant; to own a child. Je vous reconnais bien là; that is just like you.
se reconnaître, v.r., to know one’s self; to see one’s self; to know where one is; to make out; to come to one’s self; to collect one’s self; to give one’s self breathing time; to acknowledge one’s guilt; to plead guilty. Il se reconnaît dans son fils; he sees himself in his son. Je commence à me reconnaître; I begin to know where I am. Je ne me reconnais plus; I don’t know what I am about. Je me reconnais bien là; that is just like me.
reconquérir, v.a., to reconquer, to recover, to regain.
reconsidération, n.f., reconsideration.
reconsidérer, v.a., to reconsider.
reconstituer, v.a., to reconstitute, to re-establish, to re-organize.
reconstitution, n.f., reconstitution, reorganization, resettling; (jur.) substitution.
reconstruction, n.f., reconstruction, rebuilding.