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  • remembrancer
    remembrancer
    noun
    a person who reminds another of something.
  • Remembrancer
    Remembrancer
    noun
    any of several officials of the Exchequer esp one ( Queen's or King's Remembrancer ) whose duties include collecting debts due to the Crown
Synonyms

remembrancer

American  
[ri-mem-bruhn-ser] / rɪˈmɛm brən sər /

noun

  1. a person who reminds another of something.

  2. a person engaged to do this.

  3. a reminder; memento; souvenir.

  4. Usually Remembrancer

    1. King's Remembrancer.

    2. (formerly) any of certain officials of the Court of Exchequer.

  5. an officer of the corporation of the City of London.


Remembrancer 1 British  
/ rɪˈmɛmbrənsə /

noun

  1. any of several officials of the Exchequer esp one ( Queen's or King's Remembrancer ) whose duties include collecting debts due to the Crown

  2. an official ( City Remembrancer ) appointed by the Corporation of the City of London to represent its interests to Parliament and elsewhere

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

remembrancer 2 British  
/ rɪˈmɛmbrənsə /

noun

  1. archaic a reminder, memento, or keepsake

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of remembrancer

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English, from Anglo-French; see remembrance, -er 2

Example Sentences

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I had originally made the book as sort of a personal remembrancer and as a gift for the cast and crew after our final year of shooting.

From Salon Apr. 8, 2025

He continues, Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Like grass is a metaphor for God’s greatness or something.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

The college discipline, even if it extend not beyond college duties, is a perpetual remembrancer of the high moral end for which the student is placed within its precincts.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Hilaire Belloc

Yes, you are my daughter, my child, ever most dear to me, though the evidence and continual remembrancer of my crime.'

From A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Sarah Scott

Though I never thought to leave you such a remembrancer.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

The coin was valued at £15,000, which was paid to the finder as a reward by the King's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer.

From BBC Dec. 29, 2025

The king’s Remembrancer, created by King Henry II in 1154 and Britain’s oldest judicial post, presides over the trial in a curly, white wig and robes.

From Seattle Times Feb. 8, 2023

“The American Remembrancer and Universal Tablet of Memory” was a 1795 encyclopedia of biography and history.

From Washington Post Oct. 2, 2020

In Scotland, unclaimed estates are dealt with by the Office of Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2015

My information is derived from an article on the work in the Christian Remembrancer for October, 1850, to which I refer Mr. Mackenzie for further particulars.

From Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

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