What's the difference between memento and remembrance?

Memento


Definition:

  • (n.) A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (2) When she is bickering with Bleeker about the conception, and it looks as though he is going to have the last word by telling her that he has kept her knickers as a memento, she, without missing a beat, says, "I still have your virginity."
  • (3) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.
  • (4) And on a sudden impulse, I stowed this little stolen memento of the time I saw the hawks in my inside jacket pocket and went home.
  • (5) She left no mark behind; there are no photographs or mementoes of her brief life.
  • (6) It also offers a memento of, and a comment on, the more instantly lovable work finished decades before – of the rich and longstanding relationship of a master of still life with kitchen pots and pans.
  • (7) In beard and dark shirt, Mohamed Ahmed Nur – described more than once as mayor of the world's most dangerous city – sits at a desk full of flags, mementos and trophies.
  • (8) That is why this memory of the manuscripts that do not exist any more should serve as memento for future generations.
  • (9) Three more from Muriel Spark Memento Mori (1959); The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960); The Girls of Slender Means (1961).
  • (10) But, significantly, the show will not include recent works such as the critically panned skull paintings he showed at the Wallace Collection in London in 2009 – described by the Guardian's art critic, Adrian Searle, as " a memento mori for a reputation ".
  • (11) The wall behind her is lined with mementoes from her time as first lady – an honorary plaque from the Liberian national football team, a signed photograph of her with Hillary Clinton and a framed photo of the Taylors with former French president Jacques Chirac.
  • (12) A 2007 New York Times story recounted how Arredondo took a pickup truck around the country, carrying a flag-draped coffin and photos and mementos of Alexander, including a football and his Winnie the Pooh toy.
  • (13) We analyzed the experts' conclusions regarding legal mementos and expert reports, wherein medical liability (4 cases) and repair of dental injury (2 cases) were put into question.
  • (14) They will doubtless arrive to examine her grisly family mementoes, but that will only be a small step towards any form of justice.
  • (15) We give him a fragment of a smashed-up hard drive, a memento of the Guardian’s tangles with GCHQ: a year ago this weekend, senior editors destroyed computers used to store Snowden’s documents while GCHQ representatives watched .
  • (16) Wangari Maathai's office in fuming, downtown Nairobi is full of citations and mementos, but there is one special photograph.
  • (17) "Clearly, someone thought it was better to keep it as a memento.
  • (18) His duties probably included chasing off those who came with hammers (which could apparently be hired locally) to chip away pieces of the stones as mementoes.
  • (19) It's the sort of covetable memento that says "I was there" just as much as a crumpled 1966 World Cup final ticket or recurrent lysergic acid flashbacks.
  • (20) But judging from the contents of the office – a clutter of playtexts and mementoes of previous productions – Stephens hasn't been short of work.

Remembrance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
  • (n.) The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
  • (n.) Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni//on; instruction.
  • (n.) Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar scenes of remembrance played out across the country – in a show of emotion not seen since the 1937 funeral of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first president after the nation was founded in 1918.
  • (2) An ITV news presenter who has been subject to racist and sexist abuse for her decision not to wear a Remembrance Day poppy said she made her decision in order to be "neutral and impartial on-screen".
  • (3) "And I think that there was some major journalist [the Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow in 2010] who would be as big a supporter of Remembrance Day as anybody, but who said he didn't wear a poppy because he felt people were telling him he should do it.
  • (4) Sixteen Anglican chaplains are understood to be spending Remembrance Sunday on active service in Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • (5) He has appointed Tory MP Andrew Murrison, a former Royal Navy medical officer, as his special representative for the remembrance.
  • (6) Sunday's remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall did not offer much in the way of opportunities for error.
  • (7) This sporting occasion did begin in remembrance of one of the most remarkable campaigns for justice, against a scandalous police cover-up, but it ended largely in rancour, and complaints about a referee, Mark Halsey.
  • (8) Following the Last Post, wreaths will be laid and the Act of Remembrance will finish with a royal salute.
  • (9) "This is a test; we have to confront it, we have to resist, we have to fight," he told a remembrance ceremony for former French prime minister Michel Debré in Amboise, central France .
  • (10) His critics have variously attacked him for not bowing low enough at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday , appearing not to sing the national anthem at a service and “snubbing” the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony by turning down an invitation to attend.
  • (11) "The Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph has always contained prayers and readings from scripture, and the fact that it continues to be so central a part of our public life would suggest that it is meeting people's pastoral needs," said the Venerable Peter Eagles, archdeacon for the army.
  • (12) It has been found that chlorpromazine tends to lessen the incidental memory in extent and increase the number of allomnesias or instances of inaccurate remembrance, whereas amphetamine has the effects of increasing the extent of the incidental memory and reducing the number of allomnesias.
  • (13) On the third anniversary last year, 19 mothers of the island’s dead wrote to Conservative prime minister Erna Solberg asking for Utøya to stay closed, and to remain as a place of remembrance.
  • (14) It is the culmination of a long and painful attempt to find a balance between politics and grief, courage and remembrance, youth and parenthood, moving on and looking back.
  • (15) The Glasgow Games will be followed immediately by the main, official first world war centenary remembrance service at Glasgow Cathedral – a commemoration seen by pro-unity campaigners as evidence of the UK's powerful shared history.
  • (16) Samira Ahmed (@SamiraAhmedUK) Hundreds complain about #Marr 's Le Pen interview on Remembrance Sunday.
  • (17) Then, as customary, our minister issued a prayer, ending in a moment of silent remembrance.
  • (18) St James's Palace said of Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge: "The Duke's strong view is the poppy is a universal symbol of remembrance, which has no political, religious or commercial connotations."
  • (19) Accompanied by the Salamanca band of the Rifles, the parade will march from the cathedral to Liberation Monument for the remembrance service.
  • (20) Malcolm Turnbull asks for investigation into minister Stuart Robert's China trip Read more A media release issued by China MinMetals Corporation said Robert had extended his congratulations “on behalf of the Australian Department of Defence” and had presented “a medal bestowed to him by Australian prime minister in honour of remembrance and blessing”.