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Rememora(u)nce, -ans, n. Also: rememmor-. [Late ME rememoraunce (c1449), OF rememorance (13th c. in OED) Rememb(e)ra(u)nce n.] Remembrance. a. = Rememb(e)ra(u)nce n. 1. b. = Rememb(e)ra(u)nce n. 3. c. = Rememb(e)ra(u)nce n. 4.a. 1549 Compl. 2/27.
In hope to … extinct oure generatione furtht of rememorance 1570 Leslie 46.
Not … havand respect nor rememorance that he wes oblist … to have keipit the trewisb. a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 540 (Harl.).
How bitter is in ȝoure rememoraunce To think how [etc.] 1549 Compl. 68/12.
As neir the verite as my rememorance can declairc. 1456–70 Liber Aberbr. II 105.
Ewyl myndit personis wythout the dredor of God or rememorans of the dampnatioun of thar sawlys a1538 Abell 117b.
And soyn rememorance of him is tint

d. In the rememorance (of, also const. that and clause), = Rememb(e)ra(u)nce n. 6. a1538 Abell 20a.
He left his stane hous … in the rememorance that the armor of Royme come sa far in Britane Ib. 63a.
Laudonia in the rememorans of loth it held the auld naym

e. A memorial (of a person). Cf. Rememb(e)ra(u)nce n. 8. a1538 Abell 41b.
Constantyne left na gude rememorance of him be hynd him