remembrance vs vestige

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. 

vestige

noun
  • A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present. 

  • A mark left on the earth by a foot. 

  • A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor. 

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