reminiscential
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
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
Soldierlike--monosyllabic--in his official and business dealings he threw aside all formality and reserve in his social intercourse, delightfully reminiscential, indeed a capital story teller.
From Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson
For Becky's dubious adventure has its climax, it tends towards a conclusion, and the final scene cannot be recalled and summarized in his indirect, reminiscential manner.
From The Craft of Fiction by Percy Lubbock
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 Richard Burton
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 Norman Douglas
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