remembering

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English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈmɛmb(ə)ɹɪŋ/
  • Hyphenation: re‧mem‧ber‧ing

Verb

remembering

  1. present participle and gerund of remember

Noun

remembering (countable and uncountable, plural rememberings)

  1. The act by which something is remembered.
    • 1926, A. A. Milne, “In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees and the Stories Begin”, in Winnie-the-Pooh:
      ‘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.’
    • 1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering:
      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.
    • 1998, Merrelyn Emery, Searching: The Theory and Practice of Making Cultural Change:
      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 []