Remember vs Misremember - What's the difference?
remember | misremember |
To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To memorize; to put something into memory.
To not forget (to do something required)
To convey greetings from.
(obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively)
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
* Chapman
* , Secret Parting, lines 5-7
To engage in the process of recalling memories.
To remember incorrectly.
* 1641 , April 21, Lord George Digby, "Delivery to the House of Commons on the Bill of Attainder againts Stratford":
* 1750 , Ralph Griffiths, The Monthly Review :
* 1801 , , The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin , Oxford, p. 33:
* 1994 , , Blood Oath , McMillan, page 17:
As verbs the difference between remember and misremember
is that remember is to recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory while misremember is to remember incorrectly.remember
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Alternative forms
* remembre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)citation
citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.
- My friends remembered me of home.
- ''But soon, remembering her how brief the whole
- ''Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,
- ''Her set gaze gathered
Usage notes
* In sense 1 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . * In sense 3 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. * SeeSynonyms
* recall * reminisceDerived terms
* rememberer * remembranceSee also
* recollect * recollection * remindmisremember
English
Verb
(en verb)- . . . that he, who twice upon oath, with time of recollection, could not remember anything of such a business, might well, a third time, misremember somewhat.
- His name, if I do not misremember , was Peter Otsequot.
- I have been assured . . . if I misremember not.
- Did the military screw things up, or did you simply misremember ?