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The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge
of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. |
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The reach and positiveness with which a person can
remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and
represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong. |
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The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past
ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of
foreign lands. |
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The time within which past events can be or are remembered;
as, within the memory of man. |
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Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence,
character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or
tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory. |
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A memorial. |