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Remembering vs Remembrance - What's the difference?

remembering | remembrance |

As nouns the difference between remembering and remembrance

is that remembering is the act by which something is remembered while remembrance is the act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.

As a verb remembering

is present participle of lang=en.

remembering

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is remembered.
  • * (Marita Sturken)
  • The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings , to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.

    remembrance

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Alternative forms

    * remembraunce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 . .
  • Synonyms

    * recollection; reminiscence. See memory.