reminiscential
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- reminiscentially adverb
Etymology
Origin of reminiscential
1640–50; < Late Latin reminiscenti ( a ) reminiscence + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Latest newshawk to add his reminiscential bit to the pile was Negley Farson.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have nearly reached the middle of the eighteenth century, and you may surely carry on your reminiscential exertions to the close of the same.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Maybe the tone of the time fosters a reminiscential and intimately personal mood, by driving a man for refuge into the only place where peace can still be found—into himself.
From Alone by Douglas, Norman
Sir William made one of his characteristic, graceful little speeches, reminiscential and modest.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Furniss, Harry
The reminiscential essays continually strike a tender note that vibrates with human feeling and such memorials as the paper he wrote on the deaths of Irving and Macaulay represent a frequent vein.
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard
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