living memory

plural living memories

1. Man's collective memory of the past.

   These writers were recording the living memory of those times.

   2015, Sofi Oksanen, Russia in the history of Finnish literature

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   The document refers to the practice as “ett urgammalt bruk” (an ancient custom). Clearly this was a custom that was older than the living memory of anyone living in Okome at that time, making it at least as old as the early eighteenth century (although likely older).

   2016, Kimberly Jo La Palm at University of California (LA), Uncovering Performance in Medieval Scandinavia

   Synonyms: human memory