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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Remembrance | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for Remembrance | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Remembrance \Re*mem"brance\ (-brans), n. [OF. remembrance.] 1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection. Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. --Milton. Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. --Addison. 2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection. This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. --Pope. 3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory. --Shak. 4. 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. 5. Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni[?][?]on; instruction. [Obs.] --Shak. 6. 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. Syn: Recollection; reminiscence. See {Memory}. | |
