remembrancer

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English

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Etymology

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From remembrance +‎ -er.

Noun

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remembrancer (plural remembrancers)

  1. A person who reminds someone.
    • 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, published 1985, page 77:
      I wonder, Dick, you did not put me in mind of sending for my own mattresses - But, if I had not been an ass, I should not have needed a remembrancer.
    • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 387:
      Tribal chieftains in Africa had had official remembrancers about them; I was Ulick's remembrancer.
  2. A memento or souvenir.
    • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 3, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
      Near a fortnight had passed before I attempted to restrain their affliction; for premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.
  3. A recorder, or municipal judge.
  4. An officer of exchequer.
  5. (UK politics) Alternative letter-case form of Remembrancer: an official of the City of London Corporation.
    • [2011 October 31, George Monbiot, “The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London is ripe for protest”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      In one respect at least the Corporation acts as the superior body: it imposes on the House of Commons a figure called the remembrancer: an official lobbyist who sits behind the Speaker's chair and ensures that, whatever our elected representatives might think, the City's rights and privileges are protected.]