remembrancer
noun
a person who reminds another of something.
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Remembrancernounany of several officials of the Exchequer esp one ( Queen's or King's Remembrancer ) whose duties include collecting debts due to the Crown
remembrancer
American
[ri-mem-bruhn-ser]
/ rɪˈmɛm brən sər /
noun
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a person who reminds another of something.
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a person engaged to do this.
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Usually Remembrancer
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(formerly) any of certain officials of the Court of Exchequer.
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an officer of the corporation of the City of London.
Remembrancer
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British
/ rɪˈmɛmbrənsə /
noun
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any of several officials of the Exchequer esp one ( Queen's or King's Remembrancer ) whose duties include collecting debts due to the Crown
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an official ( City Remembrancer ) appointed by the Corporation of the City of London to represent its interests to Parliament and elsewhere
remembrancer
2
British
/ rɪˈmɛmbrənsə /
noun
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I had originally made the book as sort of a personal remembrancer and as a gift for the cast and crew after our final year of shooting.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
It is a little shrine, which is to hide away from you for ever that remembrancer of sadness.
From Romola by George Eliot
See to it while you may, that these forces, when needed, are there, or whatever else you may gain will be but a mocking remembrancer of the greater thing you have lost.
From Men in the Making by Ambrose Shepherd
I will leave behind me this melancholy remembrancer.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy 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
At Oxford, in 1851, when James Mozley asked whom he would like to see, he said, the men who had written in the Christian Remembrancer on Dante and Luther.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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