remembrance

nounmemory, recollection

noungift, testimonial

Word Origin & History

c.1300, "a memory, recollection," from Old French remembrance (11c.), from remembrer (see remember). From late 14c. as "consideration, reflection; present consciousness of a past event; store of personal experiences available to recollection, capacity to recall the past." Also late 14c. as "memento, keepsake, souvenir," and "a commemoration, remembering, ritual of commemoration." Meaning "faculty of memory, capability of remembering" is early 15c.

British Remembrance Day, the Sunday nearest Nov. 11 (originally in memory of the dead of World War I) is attested from 1921. A remembrancer (early 15c.) was a royal official of the Exchequer tasked with recording and collecting debts due to the Crown; hence also, figuratively "Death" (late 15c.).

Example Sentences for remembrance

You were our only child; named Artaminta, in remembrance of my mother.

When you return, you will find a trifling token of remembrance for yourself and Philothea.

The mighty man of Kittery has a double claim to remembrance.

Old people have a remembrance of a foot of snow which lasted for a week.

He spoke of his mother, he really threatened his father by the remembrance of ...

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