Definition of Forgetfulnesses

1. forgetfulness [n] - See also: forgetfulness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forgetfulnesses

forgery
forges
forges ahead
forget, when up to one's neck in alligators, that the mission is to drain the swamp
forget-me-not
forget-me-nots
forget it
forget me drug
forget oneself
forgetful
forgetful person
forgetfull
forgetfully
forgetfulness
forgetfulnesses (current term)
forgetive
forgetness
forgets
forgettable
forgettably
forgetted
forgetter
forgetters
forgettest
forgetteth
forgettil
forgetting
forgettingly
forgettings

Literary usage of Forgetfulnesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... all events in proportion to their importance or remoteness of date, as occasional forgetfulnesses or rather aberrations of memory in regard to some one, ..."

2. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"... without pontiffs, without spiritual guides, a prey to all the disorders, excesses, and forgetfulnesses which ever accompany the labor of a crowd, ..."

3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1828)
"... and repair the great and little forgetfulnesses and omissions of duty, and pass from the infirmities of a man to the affections of a saint, —we may, ..."

4. The Old Masters of Belgium and Holland: Les Maîtres D'autrefois by Eugène Fromentin (1882)
"... have the reputation of being original art; there are ellipses that are omissions, forgetfulnesses that would make one believe in the artist's impotence. ..."

5. French Literature of To-day: A Study of the Principal Romancers and Essayists by Yetta Blaze de Bury (1898)
"... in which love plays no part, and in which the gamut of the heart's feeling and passion is replaced by the story of the forgetfulnesses, omissions, ..."

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