Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no memory or recollection.
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- adjective Not
remembering ;forgetful .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Luke had kept a vigil by the bunk bed through the morning and deep into the afternoon until Cassie woke up, disheveled and unremembering.
In This Way I Was Saved Brian DeLeeuw 2009
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I don't know if anyone has studied money-manager performance by age but, in any era, I'd bet on the unremembering young.
The Dow Generation 2008
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Gringoire's, altogether unremembering the encounter in the wood, the dead robber, and the stern nature of his embassy here so far from
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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The feeling carried him, unresisting and unremembering, to the platform in front of all those faces.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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NOT unremembering we pass our exile from the starry ways:
Aphrodite A. E. 1913
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The dozens of townspeople, still alive, who had known of him or known about him in the first twenty-three years of his life were in the same unremembering condition: if they knew of any incident connected with that period of his life they didn't tell about it.
Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909
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Its quality is as intangible and pervasive as that dim magic of “unremembering remembrance” that is awakened in some by the troubling tides of spring; it is apparently as unsought for as are the naive utterances of folk-song.
Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908
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Its quality is as intangible and pervasive as that dim magic of "unremembering remembrance" that is awakened in some by the troubling tides of spring; it is apparently as unsought for as are the naive utterances of folk-song.
Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908
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Miss Betty, waking at daybreak, saw the motes dancing in the sun at her window, and watched them with a placid, unremembering eye.
The Two Vanrevels Booth Tarkington 1907
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Soon the whole sharp outline of the spot is lost in unremembering grass.
Ponkapog Papers. 1904
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