reminiscential
Americanadjective
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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
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
The memory of flowers again and again laid a detaining hand upon him, and must have ministered to him unrecorded in how many a night hour, mindful, reminiscential, with what gentle ministerings!
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
I am sending you by the Scribners a volume of reminiscential twaddle....
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry
Sir William made one of his characteristic, graceful little speeches, reminiscential and modest.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Furniss, Harry
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