Definition of "remembrance" in English

noun

1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.

   • For Titan, by the mightly Loſs [of Phaëthon] diſmay'd, / Among the Heav'ns th'Immortal Fact diſplay'd, / Leſt the remembrance of his Grief ſhould fail, / And in Conſtellations wrote his Tale. [Translation of a work by Claudian.]

2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory, recollection.

   • Yes, and did ſee ſuch things there, the remembrance of which will ſtick by me as long as I live; ſpecially three things, to wit, How Chriſt, in deſpite of Satan, maintains his work of Grace in the heart; how the Man had ſinned himſelf quite out of hopes of Gods mercy; and alſo the Dream of him that thought in his ſleep the day of Judgement was come.
   • […] Nausicaa blooming as a goddess stands, / With wondering eyes the hero [Odysseus] she survey'd / And grateful thus began the royal maid: / 'Hail, godlike stranger! and when heaven restores / To thy fond wish thy long-expected shores, / This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear, / To me thou owest, to me, the vital air.'

3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.

4. (obsolete) Something which serves to remember; a memento, a memorial, a souvenir, a token; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.

   • [stanza I] A Gentle Knight was pricking on the Plain, / Yclad in mightie Arms and ſilver Shield, […] / [stanza II] And on his Breaſt a bloody Croſs he bore, / The dear remembrance of his dying Lord, / For whoſe ſweet ſake that glorious Badge he wore, / And dead (as living) ever him ador'd: […]

5. (archaic) The power of remembering or the period over which one's memory extends.

6. (obsolete) Something to be remembered, such as an admonition, counsel, instruction.

verb

1. To remember; to recall to mind.