remembering

alternative obsolete remembryng

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of remember

plural rememberings · alternative obsolete remembryng

1. countableuncountableThe act by which something is remembered.

   The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.

   1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering

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   ‘I do remember,’ he said, ‘only Pooh doesn’t very well, so that’s why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it’s a real story and not just a remembering.’

   1926, A. A. Milne, “In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees and the Stories Begin”, in Winnie-the-Pooh

   In this process participants become immersed in the dynamic interplay of rememberings, communal extraction, imaginings, expectings, etc., and of singular perceptions of each of these separately and as they come together […]

   1998, Merrelyn Emery, Searching: The Theory and Practice of Making Cultural Change

   Synonyms: remembrance, recollection