Meaning of unforget | Babel Free

Definitions

To not forget; also, to remember again after forgetting.

informal, transitive

Examples

“I miss⟳ them all, for, unforgetting, My spirit o'er the past still strays, And, much its wasted years regretting, It treads again these shaded ways.”

“My sorrows seem but small and brief,— Soon softened into vague regretting; I find⟳ a balm in every leaf, Build⟳ ships on every wreck-strewn reef, Then blush before this marble Grief, Still unforgetting!”

“Hither, when soft the autumn sun is setting, The duteous mourner shall repair⟳ alone; With pangs subdued, perchance, but unforgetting The pure, sweet virtues of the dear one gone: […]”

“Then from that anguished soul, distraught, a cry⟳! "Earth's breaking hearts are countless as her days, And He who strung the vibrant chords forgets, Or, unforgetting, slays."”

“One Scripture rule⟳, at least, was unforgot; He hid the outcast, and bewrayed him not; […]”

“He first talked lightly, as at any hour A father might—in broken sentences— Of matters of to-day, and unforgot From all the yesterdays; […]”

“How sweet is friendship's sacred lot, Where sordid feelings harbor not. To feel⟳ that we are unforgot By those we deeply love⟳.”

“She too was unforgetting: has she yet Forgotten that long agony when her breath Too fierce for living fanned the flame of death?”

“She could make⟳ me forget⟳ Grack and Pittsburgh, and then perhaps even remember⟳ me enough to unforget them again.”

“Truth is aletheia. A-letheia is the un-concealment that arises through un-forgetting. […] To un-forget the origin is to remember⟳ that one has forgotten and to recognize that such forgetting is inescapable. […] The truth "known" in the un-forgetting of a-letheia is a truth that always carries a shadow in the midst of its lighting.”

“What would happen⟳, for instance, if I tried to unforget the whole series of accidental and contingent encounters through which I entered the dense landscape of the hills?”

“Her [Assia Djebar's] novelistic ‘un-forgetting’ of an occulted past and her confrontation with a perilous national present⟳ take⟳ her as far back as the fall⟳ of Carthage and forward⟳ through two millennia of subterranean linguistic and gender memories.”

“Breaking open⟳ the word of God in Scripture through preaching is a vital way of un-forgetting. […] Whether in great set-piece sermons or in short intimate homilies the preacher is called upon to help⟳ us ‘un-forget’ the one thing that most people find⟳ it hardest to believe⟳ – that God loves them.”

“This is but one of a number⟳ of instances of unforgetting throughout the story of Austerlitz through which he pieces together the shreds of his life as he unforgets his life before the Kindertransport and the journey from this life to another in Bala and beyond.”

“March⟳ 24, 2010 as I take⟳ down the navy blue folder that has always been devoted to my notes on "style," I notice⟳ on opening it that the cover's inner flap is concealed behind a glued-on sheet of paper. […] Without my usual hesitation, I rip it off the way one rips off, unforgets, peels, ferrets out, seeking the pure treasure, proof of the existence of life before us, without us, the book of our dead and of our betrayals.”

“These updated, detailed studies have⟳ given modern architecture a new face⟳ in a history that does not omit the presence of women. They have⟳ ‘unforgotten’ great architects like⟳ Charlotte Perriand, Lilly Reich and Marion Mahony Griffin.”

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