Remembrancer vs Remembrance - What's the difference?
remembrancer | remembrance |
A person who reminds someone
* 1771 , Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker , Penguin Classics, 1985, p.77:
A memento or souvenir
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 . .
As nouns the difference between remembrancer and remembrance
is that remembrancer is (british) any of several former officials in the court of exchequer while remembrance is the act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.remembrancer
English
Noun
(en noun)- I wonder, Dick, you did not put me in mind of sending for my own mattresses - But, if I had not been an ass, I should not have needed a remembrancer .