reminiscencen.

Brit.

/ˌrɛmᵻˈnɪsns/, U.S.

/ˌrɛməˈnɪs(ə)ns/

Forms: 1500s reminiscens, 1600s reminiscience, 1600s– reminiscence.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French réminiscence; Latin reminiscentia.

Etymology: < Middle French, French réminiscence act, process, or fact of remembering or recollecting (c1330), (in Platonic philosophy) theory that the soul has innate knowledge acquired in previous existences (1580), or its etymon post-classical Latin reminiscentia act of calling to mind, remembrance (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian; frequently from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin reminīscent- , reminīscēns , present participle of reminīscī to remember (see reminiscent adj.) + -ia -ia suffix¹; compare -ence suffix. Compare Catalan reminiscència (1498), Spanish reminiscencia (a1494), Portuguese reminiscência (15th cent.), Italian reminiscenza (a1342).

a. The action, process, or fact of remembering or recollecting; spec. the action of recovering knowledge or fondly recalling memories by mental application; recollection.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection

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anamnesis1656

membrance1827

reliving1919

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxv. 256 By long and studious obseruation rather a repetition or reminiscens naturall.

1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 407 The other part of memory, called Reminiscence: which is the Retreiving of a thing, at present forgot, or but confusely remembred.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §315 The Peripatetics themselves distinguish between reminiscence and mere memory.

1791 W. Cowper Four Ages 23 Knows he his origin? can he ascend By reminiscence to his earliest date?

1864 F. W. C. Gerstäcker Fat Widow in Western Lands & Western Waters ii. 369 In rainy weather it was necessary..to look for fords through..foaming rivulets, and, as for paving, a portion of the inhabitants alone knew it by reminiscence.

1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 208 Her eyes were dreamily bright,..her expression a happy one, tinged with reminiscence.

1969 W. A. Camps Introd. Virgil's ‘Aeneid’ App. v. 137 The narrative of the Aeneid is at some points coloured by reminiscence of events in the career of Octavian.

1970 P. White Let. 26 Jan. (1994) xi. 357 She might be eligible for an actor's home, where there's probably a lot of ginning up and fruity reminiscence.

2008 H. Hughes Stagecoach to Tombstone ix. 73 He picks up a cavalry hat, lost in reminiscence. ‘Standing there thinking about it won't bring him back,’ says muleskinner Charlie.

b. Philosophy. Esp. in Platonic philosophy: the theory that the soul has innate knowledge acquired in previous existences; the recovery of such knowledge; (also) an instance of this. Cf. anamnesis n. 1

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1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman ii. 84 There are those who teach on Plato's grounds, that Inclination comes from a certain Reminiscence.

1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 9 Thus is all her learning only reminiscence, a recovery of her first knowledge.

1704 W. Sherlock Disc. Happiness (1705) I. ii. iv. 123 To bring those Ideas into Act, which were originally imprinted on the Mind, but not known before, is not unlike to Plato's Reminiscence.

1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild i. xxi. 180 This only happened to those Spirits which returned into the Flesh, in order to prevent that Reminiscence which Plato mentions.

1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. II. 111 The ingenious doctrine of the soul's reminiscence of a former apprehension of truth.

1879 H. Calderwood Relations Mind & Brain 266 Embryology presents us with a modification of Plato's doctrine of reminiscence.

1900 F. S. Turner Knowl., Belief & Certitude iii. ii. 22 The experiment, if it failed to prove Plato's theory that knowledge is reminiscence, showed that the human mind was..competent to attain mathematical knowledge.

1954 P. E. More in J. D. Montgomery State versus Socrates ii. 36 The philosophy of ideas, and reminiscence, and all that we deem most distinctly Platonic, is but a development..of the lesson learned from Socrates.

2008 M. Czepczynski Cultural Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities ii. 52 Reminiscence is not simply based on evoking the past, but more on a realization of the learnt knowledge, deposited in mental space.

2. An expression, feature, fact, etc., which recalls or is suggestive of something else; an echo.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > something remembered > source of

reminiscence1691

1691 Hist. Athenian Soc. i. 6/1 Were I a Pythagorean, I should imagine that it was a reminiscence of something like what had happened some Thousands of years ago in some far Country or other, which he had observed in the transmigration of his Soul.

1841 M. Lemon What will World Say? IV. i. i. 23 Miss Mayley I—yes—a reminiscence of the Opera... Warner A more pleasant one, I trust, than the rheumatism which has daily reminded me of my last visit.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 153 Other reminiscences of the words of Amos are only a part of the harmony of Scripture.

1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. vi. 229 There is a singular and striking reminiscence of vertebræ in the three arches of the bony skull.

1876 H. N. Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. xxvi. 396 [The Saturnalia] of which the vivid reminiscence still exists in the modern Carnival.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 388 A typical molluscan larva..is formed inside the transparent egg-shell, a quaint reminiscence of the marine origin of the freshwater mussel, probably many millions of years ago.

1935 M. E. Durham in Man June 94/2 In Scutari, the bridegroom gave the bride a necklace made of silvergilt filigree from which hung three large gilt coins,..and this probably was a reminiscence of the bride price.

1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 315/2 Khoe..was gradually replaced by Khoe Dutch, and eventually by Afrikaans; place names and plant and animal names survive as reminiscences of Cape Khoe.

3. Chiefly in plural.

a. A recollection or memory, as a mental fact or phenomenon.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > something remembered

i-mindOE

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remembrance?c1400

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recollection1652

reminiscence1750

souvenir1775

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remembery1882

1750 J. Dunn tr. C. F. Lambert Coll. Curious Observ. I. 410 The sciences were rather reminiscences of what we had formerly known, than new acquisitions of knowledge.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vii. 87 Vague dreams have rolled, And varied reminiscences have waked.

1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. i. 7 The passive indolence which..easily mistakes its mere reminiscences for the result of inquiry.

1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 94 Memory which at my time of life is gradually becoming one of her own reminiscences.

1931 A. Uttley Country Child (1936) xii. 201 Margaret wiped her precious china tenderly, with..little reminiscences of when it had been used, weddings, funerals, birthdays, and Christmases.

1952 C. Paddleford in N.Y. Herald Tribune 21 Sept. (This Week section) 53/1 I met a black-walnut cake that for me held a cumulative wealth of fragrant reminiscences. It awoke memories of the old days.

b. A recollection or memory of a past fact or experience recounted to others; spec. (usually in plural) a person's collective memories or experiences put into literary form; frequently in the titles of such publications.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > instance of

retrospection1624

reminiscence1797

the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > instance of > survey > in literary form

reminiscence1797

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > types of biography > autobiography or memoirs

story1533

autography1661

memoirs1676

idiographya1734

self-biography1796

autobiography1797

reminiscence1797

autobiog1829

autobio1856

auto1881

curriculum vitae1902

biodata1947

vita1949

c.v.1971

1797 G. T. Landmann in P. C. Newman Caesars of Wilderness (1987) 58 Highland speeches and sayings, Highland reminiscences; and Highland farewells.

1806 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 268 His reminiscences familiarize us with the interior of the court of George the First and Second, and display, in full light, the numskullism of both those regal personages.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. v. 265 As he listened to these reminiscences of the sailors.

1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. Introd. 3 Contemporary reminiscences of that day of desperate disaster.

1903 W. D. Howells Lett. Home viii. 47 I was sitting..with them, swapping reminiscences, and making the old people laugh.

1942 H. L. Mencken Diary 23 Oct. (1989) 223 Various publishers are urging him to write his reminiscences, but he hates writing, and so refuses.

1992 Canad. Geographic July 87/1 Her attractively produced book is both a loving family reminiscence and a vivid tribute to those who met the challenges of homesteading in the wilderness.

2004 Uncut Mar. 134/2 Clint's minimal interviewing technique..is enough to cajole a raft of engaging reminiscences from his clientele.

4. Psychology. Improvement in the ability to remember learned material or to perform a learned task which occurs after the learning has ceased. Cf. obliviscence n.

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1913 P. B. Ballard in Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Monogr. Suppl. 1 ii. 17 As obliviscence is a gradual process of deterioration in the capacity to revive past experiences, so is reminiscence a gradual process of improvement in that capacity.

1935 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 47 89 The results of the two experiments..indicate that reminiscence..occurs independently of casual revival or intentional review.

1995 Child Devel. 66 893 These findings have important implications for infant memory retrieval, reminiscence, and infantile amnesia.

Compounds

attributive. Designating a form of therapy, esp. for the elderly, in which the recall and discussion of personal memories is facilitated, in order to improve mental health, encourage social interaction, etc.; involving or relating to therapy of this type.

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1975 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 75 2207/3 The nurses have conducted pilot studies to evaluate the effects on residents of..reminiscence therapy.

1984 O. Cusack & E. Smith Pets & Elderly xii. 207 A group therapy activity, such as a reminiscence class.

1995 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 110 195/1 Little reminiscence work has been done with individual elderly persons in the community.

2003 F. Boller & J. Grafman Handbk. Neuropsychol. (ed. 2) ii. 49/2 Reminiscence therapy is a way of encouraging memory-impaired people to remember incidents and experiences from the past.

Derivatives

ˌremiˈniscenceful adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [adjective] > characterized by reminiscence

reminiscential1646

remindful1797

meminiscent1812

reminiscent1828

nostalgic1838

reminiscenceful1889

1889 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 64 The reflective reminiscenceful character common to all the writings of the Apocrypha.

1913 R. Brooke in C. Hassall Rupert Brooke (1964) x. 373 I'm afraid you'll find Berlin rather bad for a few days... Places are so reminiscence-ful.

1987 R. M. Loomba in R. M. Loomba & G. R. Madan Society & Culture p. xiii Professor Sushil Chandra has traced ‘The Growth of Disciplines of Sociology, Social Work [etc.]’ and the key role of Professor Radhakamal Mukerjee in it with great reminiscenceful gusto.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	reminiscence
释义	reminiscencen. Brit. /ˌrɛmᵻˈnɪsns/, U.S. /ˌrɛməˈnɪs(ə)ns/ Forms: 1500s reminiscens, 1600s reminiscience, 1600s– reminiscence. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French réminiscence; Latin reminiscentia. Etymology: < Middle French, French réminiscence act, process, or fact of remembering or recollecting (c1330), (in Platonic philosophy) theory that the soul has innate knowledge acquired in previous existences (1580), or its etymon post-classical Latin reminiscentia act of calling to mind, remembrance (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian; frequently from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin reminīscent- , reminīscēns , present participle of reminīscī to remember (see reminiscent adj.) + -ia -ia suffix¹; compare -ence suffix. Compare Catalan reminiscència (1498), Spanish reminiscencia (a1494), Portuguese reminiscência (15th cent.), Italian reminiscenza (a1342). 1. a. The action, process, or fact of remembering or recollecting; spec. the action of recovering knowledge or fondly recalling memories by mental application; recollection. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection minOE thoughtc1175 memorya1275 minninga1325 bethinking1340 record1340 recording1340 remembrancec1350 memoriala1382 rememberinga1382 minsing?a1400 rememorancea1438 mindingc1449 remembrancingc1449 rememorationc1449 resouvenancec1450 umbethinkingc1450 sovenance1477 memoration1562 reminiscence1589 recollecting1604 rememorating1606 recollection1633 evocation1646 recall1651 recordancy1654 anamnesis1656 membrance1827 reliving1919 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxv. 256 By long and studious obseruation rather a repetition or reminiscens naturall. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 407 The other part of memory, called Reminiscence: which is the Retreiving of a thing, at present forgot, or but confusely remembred. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §315 The Peripatetics themselves distinguish between reminiscence and mere memory. 1791 W. Cowper Four Ages 23 Knows he his origin? can he ascend By reminiscence to his earliest date? 1864 F. W. C. Gerstäcker Fat Widow in Western Lands & Western Waters ii. 369 In rainy weather it was necessary..to look for fords through..foaming rivulets, and, as for paving, a portion of the inhabitants alone knew it by reminiscence. 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 208 Her eyes were dreamily bright,..her expression a happy one, tinged with reminiscence. 1969 W. A. Camps Introd. Virgil's ‘Aeneid’ App. v. 137 The narrative of the Aeneid is at some points coloured by reminiscence of events in the career of Octavian. 1970 P. White Let. 26 Jan. (1994) xi. 357 She might be eligible for an actor's home, where there's probably a lot of ginning up and fruity reminiscence. 2008 H. Hughes Stagecoach to Tombstone ix. 73 He picks up a cavalry hat, lost in reminiscence. ‘Standing there thinking about it won't bring him back,’ says muleskinner Charlie. b. Philosophy. Esp. in Platonic philosophy: the theory that the soul has innate knowledge acquired in previous existences; the recovery of such knowledge; (also) an instance of this. Cf. anamnesis n. 1 ΚΠ 1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman ii. 84 There are those who teach on Plato's grounds, that Inclination comes from a certain Reminiscence. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 9 Thus is all her learning only reminiscence, a recovery of her first knowledge. 1704 W. Sherlock Disc. Happiness (1705) I. ii. iv. 123 To bring those Ideas into Act, which were originally imprinted on the Mind, but not known before, is not unlike to Plato's Reminiscence. 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild i. xxi. 180 This only happened to those Spirits which returned into the Flesh, in order to prevent that Reminiscence which Plato mentions. 1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. II. 111 The ingenious doctrine of the soul's reminiscence of a former apprehension of truth. 1879 H. Calderwood Relations Mind & Brain 266 Embryology presents us with a modification of Plato's doctrine of reminiscence. 1900 F. S. Turner Knowl., Belief & Certitude iii. ii. 22 The experiment, if it failed to prove Plato's theory that knowledge is reminiscence, showed that the human mind was..competent to attain mathematical knowledge. 1954 P. E. More in J. D. Montgomery State versus Socrates ii. 36 The philosophy of ideas, and reminiscence, and all that we deem most distinctly Platonic, is but a development..of the lesson learned from Socrates. 2008 M. Czepczynski Cultural Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities ii. 52 Reminiscence is not simply based on evoking the past, but more on a realization of the learnt knowledge, deposited in mental space. 2. An expression, feature, fact, etc., which recalls or is suggestive of something else; an echo. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > something remembered > source of reminiscence1691 1691 Hist. Athenian Soc. i. 6/1 Were I a Pythagorean, I should imagine that it was a reminiscence of something like what had happened some Thousands of years ago in some far Country or other, which he had observed in the transmigration of his Soul. 1841 M. Lemon What will World Say? IV. i. i. 23 Miss Mayley I—yes—a reminiscence of the Opera... Warner A more pleasant one, I trust, than the rheumatism which has daily reminded me of my last visit. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 153 Other reminiscences of the words of Amos are only a part of the harmony of Scripture. 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. vi. 229 There is a singular and striking reminiscence of vertebræ in the three arches of the bony skull. 1876 H. N. Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. xxvi. 396 [The Saturnalia] of which the vivid reminiscence still exists in the modern Carnival. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 388 A typical molluscan larva..is formed inside the transparent egg-shell, a quaint reminiscence of the marine origin of the freshwater mussel, probably many millions of years ago. 1935 M. E. Durham in Man June 94/2 In Scutari, the bridegroom gave the bride a necklace made of silvergilt filigree from which hung three large gilt coins,..and this probably was a reminiscence of the bride price. 1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 315/2 Khoe..was gradually replaced by Khoe Dutch, and eventually by Afrikaans; place names and plant and animal names survive as reminiscences of Cape Khoe. 3. Chiefly in plural. a. A recollection or memory, as a mental fact or phenomenon. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > something remembered i-mindOE minda1300 remembrance?c1400 membrance1650 recollection1652 reminiscence1750 souvenir1775 memento1796 memory1801 remembery1882 1750 J. Dunn tr. C. F. Lambert Coll. Curious Observ. I. 410 The sciences were rather reminiscences of what we had formerly known, than new acquisitions of knowledge. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vii. 87 Vague dreams have rolled, And varied reminiscences have waked. 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. i. 7 The passive indolence which..easily mistakes its mere reminiscences for the result of inquiry. 1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 94 Memory which at my time of life is gradually becoming one of her own reminiscences. 1931 A. Uttley Country Child (1936) xii. 201 Margaret wiped her precious china tenderly, with..little reminiscences of when it had been used, weddings, funerals, birthdays, and Christmases. 1952 C. Paddleford in N.Y. Herald Tribune 21 Sept. (This Week section) 53/1 I met a black-walnut cake that for me held a cumulative wealth of fragrant reminiscences. It awoke memories of the old days. b. A recollection or memory of a past fact or experience recounted to others; spec. (usually in plural) a person's collective memories or experiences put into literary form; frequently in the titles of such publications. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > instance of retrospection1624 reminiscence1797 the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > instance of > survey > in literary form reminiscence1797 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > types of biography > autobiography or memoirs story1533 autography1661 memoirs1676 idiographya1734 self-biography1796 autobiography1797 reminiscence1797 autobiog1829 autobio1856 auto1881 curriculum vitae1902 biodata1947 vita1949 c.v.1971 1797 G. T. Landmann in P. C. Newman Caesars of Wilderness (1987) 58 Highland speeches and sayings, Highland reminiscences; and Highland farewells. 1806 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 268 His reminiscences familiarize us with the interior of the court of George the First and Second, and display, in full light, the numskullism of both those regal personages. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. v. 265 As he listened to these reminiscences of the sailors. 1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. Introd. 3 Contemporary reminiscences of that day of desperate disaster. 1903 W. D. Howells Lett. Home viii. 47 I was sitting..with them, swapping reminiscences, and making the old people laugh. 1942 H. L. Mencken Diary 23 Oct. (1989) 223 Various publishers are urging him to write his reminiscences, but he hates writing, and so refuses. 1992 Canad. Geographic July 87/1 Her attractively produced book is both a loving family reminiscence and a vivid tribute to those who met the challenges of homesteading in the wilderness. 2004 Uncut Mar. 134/2 Clint's minimal interviewing technique..is enough to cajole a raft of engaging reminiscences from his clientele. 4. Psychology. Improvement in the ability to remember learned material or to perform a learned task which occurs after the learning has ceased. Cf. obliviscence n. ΚΠ 1913 P. B. Ballard in Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Monogr. Suppl. 1 ii. 17 As obliviscence is a gradual process of deterioration in the capacity to revive past experiences, so is reminiscence a gradual process of improvement in that capacity. 1935 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 47 89 The results of the two experiments..indicate that reminiscence..occurs independently of casual revival or intentional review. 1995 Child Devel. 66 893 These findings have important implications for infant memory retrieval, reminiscence, and infantile amnesia. Compounds attributive. Designating a form of therapy, esp. for the elderly, in which the recall and discussion of personal memories is facilitated, in order to improve mental health, encourage social interaction, etc.; involving or relating to therapy of this type. ΚΠ 1975 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 75 2207/3 The nurses have conducted pilot studies to evaluate the effects on residents of..reminiscence therapy. 1984 O. Cusack & E. Smith Pets & Elderly xii. 207 A group therapy activity, such as a reminiscence class. 1995 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 110 195/1 Little reminiscence work has been done with individual elderly persons in the community. 2003 F. Boller & J. Grafman Handbk. Neuropsychol. (ed. 2) ii. 49/2 Reminiscence therapy is a way of encouraging memory-impaired people to remember incidents and experiences from the past. Derivatives ˌremiˈniscenceful adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [adjective] > characterized by reminiscence reminiscential1646 remindful1797 meminiscent1812 reminiscent1828 nostalgic1838 reminiscenceful1889 1889 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 64 The reflective reminiscenceful character common to all the writings of the Apocrypha. 1913 R. Brooke in C. Hassall Rupert Brooke (1964) x. 373 I'm afraid you'll find Berlin rather bad for a few days... Places are so reminiscence-ful. 1987 R. M. Loomba in R. M. Loomba & G. R. Madan Society & Culture p. xiii Professor Sushil Chandra has traced ‘The Growth of Disciplines of Sociology, Social Work [etc.]’ and the key role of Professor Radhakamal Mukerjee in it with great reminiscenceful gusto. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). reminiscencev. Brit. /ˌrɛmᵻˈnɪsns/, U.S. /ˌrɛməˈnɪs(ə)ns/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: reminiscence n. Etymology: < reminiscence n. Compare earlier reminisce v. intransitive. To reminisce; to engage in reminiscences. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > look back, retrospect [verb (intransitive)] > indulge in reminiscences retrospect1659 reminisce1880 reminiscence1890 1890 S. J. Duncan Social Departure 327 Orthodocia was delightful when she reminiscenced. 1925 D. G. Mukerji My Brother's Face xiii. 204 After having fanned himself for a while, he spoke as if reminiscencing. ‘I wish I had..stuck to teaching history.’ 1999 Independent (Nexis) 4 Dec. 9 Deirdre overheard two elderly couples reminiscencing about their youth.., and how they used to amuse themselves. 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reminiscencen.

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reminiscencev.