Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Recalling to mind; reminding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Tending or serving to remind.
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- adjective Tending or serving to
remind .
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Examples
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(O'Quinn argues for something like such a reaction formation later in his essay when he describes a "textual repression in which physical and quasi-anthropological observations are used to regulate the power of emotion elicited by rememorative passages that are too volatile to handle.")
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_ 2006
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This discursive shift enacts a textual repression in which physical and quasi-anthropological observations are used to regulate the power of emotion elicited by rememorative passages that are too volatile to handle.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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Part of the impulse for this volume was rememorative, for even a cursory glance at the popular print media from 1765 to 1813 indicates the extent to which the metropolitan population was concerned with governmental matters in India.
Introduction 2000
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