What's the difference between remembrance and remembrancer?

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”.

Remembrancer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder.
  • (n.) A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He also held the post of Queen's remembrancer, created 860 years ago and the oldest judicial position continuously held by a judge.
  • (2) The remembrancer scours every piece of parliamentary legislation to ensure the corporation's interests remain unaffected.
  • (3) But the remembrancer also employs six in-house lawyers and has submitted evidence to 16 separate select committees in the past 18 months, including the Treasury's Tax Principles report published last year.
  • (4) Behind the Speaker’s chair in the House of Commons sits the Remembrancer , whose job is to ensure that the interests of the City of London are recognised by the elected members.
  • (5) Sitting facing the speaker's chair is Paul Double, a City of London official known as the remembrancer.
  • (6) (A campaign to rescind this privilege – Don’t Forget the Remembrancer – will be launched very soon.)
  • (7) The Occupy activists have a good deal of fun with the "Remembrancer", a legal official from the corporation who represents the City's interests in the House of Commons and gets to sit behind the speaker's chair – a prime example, according to Occupy, of the overly close embrace of politics and big business.
  • (8) I was talking with Nick Harkaway [author of Tigerman ] in his back garden a couple of years ago and he started explaining how the guilds of the City work.” In particular, Harkaway told him about the unelected offices of the Lord Mayor and the City Remembrancer, who can be mistaken for figureheads but, in fact, have extensive powers.