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I had originally made the book as sort of a personal remembrancer and as a gift for the cast and crew after our final year of shooting.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

But she died, leaving him an only daughter as the remembrancer of their loves; and to that daughter she had imparted all that she herself knew.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by Wilson, John Mackay

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

Then on each day, he regularly, and without miss, consults his remembrancer, and learns from thence his engagements for the time being, and so arranges his proceedings.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 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

It would be a great help to Moral Progress if we had in modern life a People's Remembrancer.

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney

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