remembering

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

remembering

  1. present participle of remember

Noun[edit]

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 []