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/rˌɛmənˈɪsəns/ Listen

noun

Reminiscence n.

The act or power of recalling past experience; the state of being reminiscent; remembrance; memory. "The other part of memory, called reminiscence, which is the retrieving of a thing at present forgot, or but confusedly remembered." "I forgive your want of reminiscence, since it is long since I saw you."

That which is remembered, or recalled to mind; a statement or narration of remembered experience; a recollection; as, pleasing or painful reminiscences.

Synonyms: Remembrance; recollection. See Memory.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reminiscence" Quotes from Famous Books

... confirmed, and events which no one believed could ever happen had apparently occurred and seemed likely to be permanent, I gave the whole thing up like a riddle which it was beneath me to unravel, and turned away in disgust from the contemplation of this puzzling world. As a playful reminiscence of our hopes of the year 1852, I suggested to Uhlig that in our correspondence during that year we should ignore its existence and should date our letters December '51, in consequence of which this said month of ...

— My Life, Volume II • Richard Wagner

... and Mrs. Ware immediately began a reminiscence that Mary remembered hearing when a child. But to-day she realized that there was a difference in the telling. Her mother was not repeating it as she used to do to amuse the children who clamored ...

— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston

... and American friends if they had beheld our procession on that dark night. Our way lay along a narrow winding path up the mountain. Not more than two people could walk together—and we were thirty, including the torch-bearers. Surely some reminiscence of night sallies against the confederate Southerners had revived in the colonel's breast, judging by the readiness with which he took upon himself the leadership of our small expedition. He ordered all the rifles and revolvers to be loaded, despatched ...

— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky

... order briefly. There were black circles beneath his eyes, making him look thinner than when he left the house that morning; he had no distinct reminiscence of lunch, and he was very tired; but his shoulders no longer ached, his headache was gone, and his ...

— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various

... The following reminiscence will further illustrate Mr. Adams' habits of industry and endurance at a later day, as well as show his views in regard to the ...

— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward

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