Remembrance
[rɪ'membr(ə)ns] or [rɪ'mɛmbrəns]
Definition
(n.) The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
(n.) The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
(n.) Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni//on; instruction.
(n.) Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.
Editor: Maris
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Reminiscence, recollection, calling to mind.[2]. Memory, mind.[3]. Memento, memorial, souvenir, remembrancer, token.
Checker: Mae
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Recollection, memory, memorial, token, souvenir, memento, reminiscence
ANT:Forgetfulness, oblivion
Typist: Shelley
Examples
- I am deeply sensible of your generosity, and I shall treasure its remembrance to my dying hour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It was but a hurried parting in a common street, yet it was a sacred remembrance to these two common people. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Mr Meagles called only one remembrance to his aid, that really did him good. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The remembrance of last night added a barbed point to it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr. Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; but not warmly. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The remembrance of such a fact surely becomes a nation of shopkeepers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I have altogether perished from the remembrance of the living, and in the next generation my place was a blank. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I do not,' said Louisa, flushing with her own great remembrance in that wise, 'think it likely. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Few who come here on business have any remembrance to bestow on one so removed from observation. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- To me, the remembrance of our last parting has been ever mournful and painful. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Each volume brought a remembrance or a suggestion of his dead friend. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Lady, she said, the countenance you have deigned to show me will long dwell in my remembrance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- That secluded sister is my first remembrance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Suppose she only wanted to see me and to speak to me, for the sake of old remembrances? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The question instantly awakened one of my dormant remembrances in connection with the birthday festival. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Say kind remembrances, if you please, Young John. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Yet it was busy, too, with all the remembrances the place naturally awakened; and they were particularly distinct and vivid. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was no laughing matter with Estella now, nor was she summoning these remembrances from any shallow place. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I took my leave of Mr. Micawber, for the time, charging him with my best remembrances to all at home. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Her remembrances of home and childhood were remembrances of the drying up of every spring and fountain in her young heart as it gushed out. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how--these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But he sent over endless remembrances of himself to his godson and to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I noticed, too, that several rings and seals hung at his watch-chain, as if he were quite laden with remembrances of departed friends. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Daylight never entered the house as to my thoughts and remembrances of it, any more than as to the actual fact. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She was in a reverie of sweet remembrances. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Remembrances of Our House, of Master George, of Aunt Jane, of Uncle Parker, all laid waste! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Brussels, Waterloo, old, old times, griefs, pangs, remembrances, rushed back into Amelia's gentle heart and caused a cruel agitation there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Which occasionally gets the better of better remembrances. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Edited by Joanne