Definitions for remembrance
rɪˈmɛm brənsre·mem·brance

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. remembrance, recollection, anamnesisnoun

   the ability to recall past occurrences

2. memorial, commemoration, remembrancenoun

   a recognition of meritorious service

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. remembrancenoun

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

2. remembrancenoun

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

3. remembrancenoun

   Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.

4. remembrancenoun

   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.

5. remembrancenoun

   Something to be remembered; counsel; admonition; instruction.

6. remembrancenoun

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

7. Etymology: remembrance, from the verb remembrer, from rememorari. Equivalent to.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Remembrancenoun

   Etymology: remembrance, Fr.

   1. Retention in memory.

   Though Cloten then but young, time has not wore him
   From my remembrance. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

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

   Had memory been lost with innocence,
   We had not known the sentence nor th’ offence;
   ’Twas his chief punishment to keep in store
   The sad remembrance what he was before. John Denham.

   Sharp remembrance on the English part,
   And shame of being match’d by such a foe,
   Rouse conscious virtue up in every heart. Dryden.

   This ever grateful in remembrance bear
   To me thou ow’st, to me the vital air. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

   2. Recollection; revival of any idea.

   I hate thy beams,
   That bring to my remembrance from what state
   I fell; how glorious once above thy sphere. John Milton.

   Remembrance is when the same idea recurs, without the operation of the like object on the external sensory. John Locke.

   3. Honourable memory. Out of use.

   Rosemary and rue keep
   Seeming and favour all the winter long,
   Grace and remembrance be unto you both. William Shakespeare.

   4. Transmission of a fact from one to another.

   Titan,
   Among the heavens, th’ immortal fact display’d,
   Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail,
   And in the constellations wrote his tale. Addison.

   5. Account preserved.

   Those proceedings and remembrances are in the Tower, beginning with the twentieth year of Edward I. Matthew Hale.

   6. Memorial.

   But in remembrance of so brave a deed,
   A tomb and funeral honours I decreed. Dryden.

   7. A token by which any one is kept in the memory.

   I have remembrances of yours,
   That I have longed to redeliver. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   Keep this remembrance for thy Julia’s sake. William Shakespeare.

   8. Notice of something absent.

   Let your remembrance still apply to Banquo;
   Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue. William Shakespeare.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Remembrancenoun

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

2. Remembrancenoun

   the state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection

3. Remembrancenoun

   something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory

4. Remembrancenoun

   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

5. Remembrancenoun

   something to be remembered; counsel; admoni//on; instruction

6. Remembrancenoun

   power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends

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1. • Recognition

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of remembrance in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of remembrance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of remembrance in a Sentence

1. Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate:

   Nostalgia is your remembrance of the things in the past, not necessarily as they were in reality. Nostalgia is often negative, and yet it can sometimes trigger a positive phenomenon that works exactly in reverse. Nostalgia can lead to strong yearnings for discovering new lands, exploring newer oceans, and offering your unlimited creativity in most unfamiliar spaces - everything that is beyond your normal limitations, and outside your comfort zone.

2. Rita Hajjar:

   Mrs. Bush I think she did so much for Fuzzy and I -- and she's still doing it. I mean, by her remembrance and allowing her name to be on the menu -- and look at all the customers and the response we're getting.

3. Robert Carroll:

   This legislation helps to safeguard the inclusivity of our state’s electoral process by being mindful of the needs of every New Yorker, september 11th is a significant day in remembrance and memorial for many New Yorkers and also coincides with the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah.

4. Muriel Bowser:

   This symbol of hate displayed in our city is both shocking and unsettling, particularly on the heels of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, this antisemitic and hateful symbol has no place in our city, and we stand united with the members of our Jewish community against anti-Semitism in all its forms.

5. Louis Post-Dispatch , Love:

   Anyone, regardless of age, gender or race that would desecrate or vandalize an object of remembrance in a cemetery is a low life that has no respect for memorials that have been placed by loved ones or people that want to honor an individual.

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