What does "remembrance" mean?
Remembrance: The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection. This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. Pope.
Additional senses
- 2.Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory. Shak.
- 3.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. And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord. Spenser. Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake. Shak.
- 4.Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni [Obs.] Shak.
- 5.Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends. Thee I have heard relating what was done Ere my remembrance. Milton. See Memory.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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