memorial vs remembrance

memorial

noun
  • Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered. 

  • A chronicle or memoir. 

  • A service of remembrance or commemoration. 

  • A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc. 

adj
  • Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative. 

  • Contained in the memory. 

remembrance

noun
  • That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memento, a memorial, a souvenir, a token; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered. 

  • The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection. 

  • Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory. 

  • The power of remembering; the reach of personal knowledge; the period over which one's memory extends. 

  • The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory, recollection. 

verb
  • To remember; to recall to mind. 

How often have the words memorial and remembrance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )