单词 | reminiscer |
释义 | reminiscern. A person who reminisces or engages in reminiscences. Cf. reminiscencer n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > one who looks back reviewer1642 reminiscencer1828 after-thinker1846 reminiscer1908 1908 J. R. Scott Princess Dehra xx. 305 He has been here for more than seventy years,..now as sort of steward emeritus and general reminiscer; and he has the legends and history of this castle at his tongue's end. 1921 Winnipeg Free Press 3 Dec. (Christmas Book Suppl.) 6/7 The great success of Lord Hamilton's former volume, ‘The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday’ has established his reputation as a reminiscer of great charm. 1966 Punch 30 Nov. 825/1 The revenants and reminiscers: Hearne, Tuckwell, Mozley, Gunning, and the rest—chirpy, inconsequent, lords of anecdote, abbots of unreason. 2001 A. Hannay tr. S. Kierkegaard Literary Rev. 47 A wistful agreeableness now pervades the two reminiscers talking about the past. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1908 |
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