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REMEMBRANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ability to recall past occurrences
Synonyms:
anamnesis; recollection; remembrance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("remembrance" is a kind of...):
memory; retention; retentiveness; retentivity (the power of retaining and recalling past experience)
Derivation:
remember (recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection)
remember (keep in mind for attention or consideration)
remember (recapture the past; indulge in memories)
remember (call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony)
remember (exercise, or have the power of, memory)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A recognition of meritorious service
Synonyms:
commemoration; memorial; remembrance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("remembrance" is a kind of...):
credit; recognition (approval)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remembrance"):
epitaph (a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person)
festschrift (a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar)
Derivation:
remember (mention favorably, as in prayer)
remember (show appreciation to)
Context examples:
I have some remembrance, said he, that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the ashes were of this particular colour.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then he said to his beloved: “I must now go and leave you, I give you a ring as a remembrance of me. When I am king, I will return and fetch you.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“Methinks I have some remembrance of the lilt,” remarked the gleeman, running his fingers over the strings.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I afterwards saw five or six of different ages, the youngest not above two hundred years old, who were brought to me at several times by some of my friends; but although they were told, that I was a great traveller, and had seen all the world, they had not the least curiosity to ask me a question; only desired I would give them slumskudask, or a token of remembrance; which is a modest way of begging, to avoid the law, that strictly forbids it, because they are provided for by the public, although indeed with a very scanty allowance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
What happened in the next few minutes I do not recollect, though I have a clear remembrance of pulling down life-preservers from the overhead racks, while the red-faced man fastened them about the bodies of an hysterical group of women.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It may have been a humble object-lesson, but I give you my word that many a time in my life I have braced myself to a hard task by the remembrance of that morning upon Crawley Downs, asking myself if my manhood were so weak that I would not do for my country, or for those whom I loved, as much as these two would endure for a paltry stake and for their own credit amongst their fellows.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I knew little of prehistoric life, but I had a clear remembrance of one book which I had read in which it spoke of creatures who would live upon our lions and tigers as a cat lives upon mice.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How should I have lived in YOUR remembrance!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“Why do you call to my remembrance,” I rejoined, circumstances of which I shudder to reflect, that I have been the miserable origin and author?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
