Definitions for: Remembrance


[n] the ability to recall past occurrences
[n] a recognition of meritorious service



Webster (1913) Definition: Re*mem"brance (-brans), n. [OF. remembrance.]
1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to
mind; recollection.

Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.
--Milton.

Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail.
--Addison.

2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory;
recollection.

This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. --Pope.

3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
--Shak.

4. That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial;
a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of
something to be remembered.

And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear
remembrance of his dying Lord. --Spenser.

Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake. --Shak.

5. Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni??on;
instruction. [Obs.] --Shak.

6. Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period
over which one's memory extends.

Thee I have heard relating what was done Ere my
remembrance. --Milton.

Syn: Recollection; reminiscence. See Memory.

Synonyms: anamnesis, commemoration, memorial, recollection

See Also: credit, epitaph, memory, recognition, retention, retentiveness

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