Lexicographical Neighbors of Forgetfulnesses
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, ..."