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remembrancer
remembrancernouna person who reminds another of something.
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Remembrancer
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
Americannoun
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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.
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
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I had originally made the book as sort of a personal remembrancer and as a gift for the cast and crew after our final year of shooting.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
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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
It is a little shrine, which is to hide away from you for ever that remembrancer of sadness.
From Romola by Eliot, George
The jockey rode the one-eyed colt, which he still retained in his possession,—a perpetual remembrancer of a memorable day in his rugged and uneven life.
From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)
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
Not far from the King's Remembrancer there is a Commissioner for Oaths; you can go into his room and have a really good swear for about half-a-crown.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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