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; admonion; 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.
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