remembrance
noun
- default, to recall
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmɛm.bɹəns/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English remembraunce, from Old French remembrance, from remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememorārī (“to call to mind, to remember”). Equivalent to remember + -ance.
- The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
“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.]”
- The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory, recollection.
“There's Roſemary, that's for Remembraunce. / Pray loue remember: and there is Paconcies, that's for Thoughts.”
“Yes, and did ſee ſuch things there, the remembrance of which will ſtick by me as long as I live; ſpecially three things, to wit, How Chriſt, in deſpite of Satan, maintains his work of Grace in the heart; how the Man had ſinned himſelf quite out of hopes of Gods mercy; and alſo the Dream of him that thought in his ſleep the day of Judgement was come.”
- Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
- Something which serves to remember; a memento, a memorial, a souvenir, a token; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
“If you turne not: you will returne the ſooner: / Keep this remembrance for thy Iulia’s sake.”
“[stanza I] A Gentle Knight was pricking on the Plain, / Yclad in mightie Arms and ſilver Shield, […] / [stanza II] And on his Breaſt a bloody Croſs he bore, / The dear remembrance of his dying Lord, / For whoſe ſweet ſake that glorious Badge he wore, / And dead (as living) ever him ador'd: […]”
- The power of remembering or the period over which one's memory extends.
“Thee I have heard relating what was done / Ere my remembrance; now hear me relate / My ſtory, which perhaps thou haſt not heard; […]”
- Something to be remembered, such as an admonition, counsel, instruction.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English remembraunce, from Old French remembrance, from remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememorārī (“to call to mind, to remember”). Equivalent to remember + -ance.
- To remember; to recall to mind.