Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for REM-I-NIS'CENCE
REM-I-NIS'CENCE, n. [Fr. from L. reminiscens, reminiscor, Gr. μναομαι. See Memory.]
- That faculty of the mind by which ideas formerly received into it, but forgotten, are recalled or revived in the memory. – Encyc.
- Recollection; recovery of ideas that had escaped from the memory. – Hale.
- Reminiscence seems often to signify recollection expressed; a relation of what is recollected.
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