Remembrance

Quick meaning: Remembrance is a noun meaning The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.

Meaning

The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.

More Meanings

1. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory, recollection.
2. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
3. To remember; to recall to mind.
4. (archaic) The power of remembering or the period over which one's memory extends.
5. (obsolete) Something to be remembered, such as an admonition, counsel, instruction.
6. (obsolete) Something which serves to remember; a memento, a memorial, a souvenir, a token; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.

Example Sentences

If you turne not: you will returne the ſooner: / Keep this remembrance for thy Iulia’s sake.

There's Roſemary, that's for Remembraunce. / Pray loue remember: and there is Paconcies, that's for Thoughts.

Dal[ila]. Let me approach at leaſt, and touch thy hand. / Sams[on]. Not for thy life, leſt fierce remembrance wake / my ſudden rage to tear thee joint by joint.

For Titan, by the mightly Loſs [of Phaëthon] diſmay'd, / Among the Heav'ns th'Immortal Fact diſplay'd, / Leſt the remembrance of his Grief ſhould fail, / And in Conſtellations wrote his Tale. [Translation of a work by Claudian.]

Word Forms

• remembrances
• remembrancing
• remembranced

Synonyms for remembrance

Depending on context, synonyms include recollection, reminiscence, recall, anamnesis, memorial, commemoration.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include recollection, anamnesis, memorial, commemoration, recall, remembering.

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