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remembrance (iou)



remembrance noun & verb. ME.
[Old French (Anglo-Norman remembraunce), from remembrer: see REMEMBER, -ANCE.]
A. noun.
a. The action of remembering; the process or fact of being remembered; memory or recollection concerning a particular person or thing (foll. by of); a particular memory or recollection, a reminiscence. ME.
M. Twain The remembrance of poor Susy's..hay-ride..brings me a pang.
b. A person's faculty or power of remembering. LME.
c. The point at which a person's memory of events begins, or the period over which it extends. M16.
d. The surviving memory of a person. L16.
e. In pl. Greetings, esp. conveyed through a third person. L18.
a. Mention, notice. LME-M17.
b. A commemorative discourse or mention; a memorial inscription. Only in 16.
Shakespeare Henry V Lay these bones in an unworthy urn, Tombless, with no remembrance over them.
The action of reminding a person; a note providing a record or reminder, a memorandum. Later also, anything used to remind a person of something. Now rare. LME.
b. A reminder given by one person to another. L16-M17.
a. An object serving to remind one person of another; a keepsake, a souvenir. LME.
b. A memorial or record of some fact, person, etc. L15.
Phrases: book of remembrance a memorandum book, a record. garden of remembrance a garden commemorating the dead, esp. those killed in the wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45. in remembrance of in memory of.
Comb.: Remembrance Day (a) = Remembrance Sunday below; (b) Hist. = Armistice Day; Remembrance Service: held on Remembrance Sunday; Remembrance Sunday the Sunday nearest to 11 November, when those killed in the wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45 are commemorated; Remembrancetide the period immediately preceding Remembrance Sunday, considered as part of the liturgical year.
b. verb trans. Remind; remember. Chiefly as remembrancing verbal noun. rare. LME.