Remembrance (-brans), n.
Etymology: [OF. remembrance.]
1. 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. Addison.
2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection. This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. Pope.
3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory. Shak.
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. 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.
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5. Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni [Obs.] Shak.
6. 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.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for remembrance; he lists it under memory.
Where he writes about it:
Memory is the faculty by which knowledge is retained or recalled; in a more general sense, memory is a retention of knowledge within the grasp of the mind, while remembrance is the having what is known consciously before the mind. — from memory
Remembrance may be voluntary or involuntary; a thing is brought to remembrance or we call it to remembrance; the same is true of memory. — from memory
Retrospection is to reminiscence much what recollection is to remembrance. — from memory