Crossword clues for remembrance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remembrance \Re*mem"brance\ (-brans), n. [OF. remembrance.]
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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.
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The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear.
--Pope. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
--Shak.-
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. Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni??on; instruction. [Obs.]
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "a memory, recollection," from Old French remembrance (11c.), from remembrer (see remember). From late 14c. as "consideration, reflection; present consciousness of a past event; store of personal experiences available to recollection, capacity to recall the past." Also late 14c. as "memento, keepsake, souvenir," and "a commemoration, remembering, ritual of commemoration." Meaning "faculty of memory, capability of remembering" is early 15c.\n
\nBritish Remembrance Day, the Sunday nearest Nov. 11 (originally in memory of the dead of World War I) is attested from 1921. A remembrancer (early 15c.) was a royal official of the Exchequer tasked with recording and collecting debts due to the Crown; hence also, figuratively "Death" (late 15c.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection. 2 The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection. 3 Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory. 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. 5 (context obsolete English) Something to be remembered; counsel; admonition; instruction. 6 Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.
WordNet
n. the ability to recall past occurrences [syn: recollection, anamnesis]
a recognition of meritorious service [syn: memorial, commemoration]
Wikipedia
Remembrance is the act of remembering, the ability to remember, or a memorial. It may refer to:
Remembrance is a Christian metalcore band formed during the winter of 2003 in Lansing, Michigan. They have played hundreds of shows with the likes of Underoath, Maylene & The Sons of Disaster, Advent, Saints Never Surrender, War of Ages, Common Yet Forbidden, No Innocent Victim, Aletheian, Dagon, and The Burial. Remembrance released two independent EPs before releasing their full-length label debut Beyond the Scope of Reason in May 2007 on Sancrosanct Records. They broke up in 2008. Matthew Weir has now moved on to play drums for Sleeping Giant.
Remembrance is a Canadian short film. It was nominated for a Genie and won the Jutra for Best Short in 2002.
Remembrance is an album from jazz drummer Elvin Jones, recorded on February 3, 4 and 5, 1978 and released on MPS Records in 1978.
Remembrance is an album by Norwegian pianist and composer Ketil Bjørnstad featuring saxophonist Tore Brunborg and drummer Jon Christensen recorded in 2009 and released on the ECM label in 2010.
Remembrance ( The Lost Time) is a 2011 German drama film directed by Anna Justice. A German-Jewish young woman and Polish young man fall in love and escape a Nazi concentration camp. As the film prologue notes, it is based on the true story of Jerzy Bielecki and Cyla Cybulska.
Remembrance ( Greek: Η μνήμη, 2002) is a feature Greek film, directed by the Greek director - writer and producer Vassilis Mazomenos. It was awarded in 2002 with the Greek Ministry of Culture National Cinema Award. As Vrasidas Karalis wrote in the History of Greek cinema: His later films Remembrance (2002), Words and Sins (2004) and Guilt (2010) received many positive reviews and international recognition; especially the last in which Mazomenos explored narrative cinema through a nightmarish and confronting story.
Remembrance is a live album featuring a performance by Cecil Taylor and Louis Moholo recorded in Berlin on July 3, 1988 as part of month-long series of concerts by Taylor and released on the FMP label.
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states: "Much of the music Cecil Taylor made during his month-long stay in Berlin was truly worthwhile and reinvigorating for him as an artist, some of it was just ho hum, a little of it was pretty much garbage, and a very small amount was so brilliant it ranked near the pinnacle of his long and well-documented career. This date with South African drummer Louis Moholo is one such performance... There are few recordings like this one, which inspires even as it amazes the listener."
Remembrance is a live album of performed by multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee recorded in 2001 at the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle and first released on the CjR label in 2005.
Remembrance is the first extended play of Suicideyear, a project by American producer James Richard Prudhomme. Issued in September 2014, It was the first record of the project to be released under Daniel Lopatin's Mexican Summer label Software. Reviews of the eight-track release from music critics were generally favorable, some reviewers praising its uplifting and emotional style of trap music uncommon in the internet music scene.
Usage examples of "remembrance".
These considerations would induce us to think that recognition hereafter is not sure, but turns on the condition that we preserve a remembrance, desire, and adaptedness for one another.
With an increasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Mark Twain wrote: I must steal half a moment from my work to say how glad I am to have your book and how highly I value it, both for its own sake and as a remembrance of an affectionate friendship which has subsisted between us for nine years without a break and without a single act of violence that I can call to mind.
Rome, the remembrance of her consuls and triumphs, may seem to imbitter the sense, and aggravate the shame, of her slavery.
The greatest paradox the Apologist has to assert is connected by him with the most impressive remembrance possessed by his readers as philosophers.
The Archdeacon found no such help in the remembrances of kings or poets.
A note from the baroness told Madame Aubain that as her husband had been promoted to a prefecture, they were leaving that night, and she begged her to accept the bird as a remembrance and a token of her esteem.
Constantius had declared his intention of deciding the quarrel in the fields of Cibalis, a name that would animate his troops by the remembrance of the victory, which, on the same auspicious ground, had been obtained by the arms of his father Constantine.
At this hour while yet the heart burns with the anguish of sorrow, and the gloom of bereavement still hangs low, my thoughts turn in loving remembrance to my sincere beloved sisters and brothers in the Cause.
This diamond snuff-box was presented to me by the stout old Blucher himself, in remembrance of service I was able to perform at Waterloo.
She smiled in remembrance of Clud in his neon green-and-black body suit.
Evidently there could be no happiness for Henriette or for me unless we parted with the person and even with the remembrance of the excellent captain.
The others were dazed at first, but as remembrance came back to them they cried and sobbed in a hysterical manner.
I sat down before him and for three consecutive hours I narrated scandalous histories unnumerable, which, however, I told simply and not spicily, since I felt ascetically disposed and obliged myself to speak with a contrition I did not feel, for when I recounted my follies I was very far from finding the remembrance of them disagreeable.
It was a couple of weeks after the board meeting and the discussion which had started me off on the remembrance of Dunster Past.