Remembrance

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

Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. --Addison. [1913 Webster]

2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection. [1913 Webster]

This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

5. Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni??on; instruction. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

6. Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends. [1913 Webster]

Thee I have heard relating what was done Ere my remembrance. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Syn: Recollection; reminiscence. See {Memory}. [1913 Webster]


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