Remembrance vs Keepsake - What's the difference?
remembrance | keepsake |
The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
* Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. .
* Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. .
The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
* This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. .
Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
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. .
* Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.
(obsolete) Something to be remembered; counsel; admonition; instruction.
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 . .
Some object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.
(historical) Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps of poetry and prose, and engravings.
As nouns the difference between remembrance and keepsake
is that remembrance is the act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection while keepsake is some object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.remembrance
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* remembraunceNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* recollection; reminiscence. See memory.keepsake
English
Noun
- She gave him a lock of hair as a keepsake of their time together.