un-forget

present singular third person un-forgets · participle present un-forgetting · past un-forgot · participle past un-forgotten

1. rareRare form of unforget.

   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.

   2010, Ronald Bogue, “Becoming-woman, Becoming-girl: Assia Djebar’s So Vast the Prison”, in Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 132

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   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.

   1987, Mark C. Taylor, “Cleaving: Martin Heidegger”, in Altarity, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 51

   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.

   2012, Simon Baker, “Preaching for Today”, in Tim Ling, Lesley Bentley, editors, Developing Faithful Ministers: A Practical and Theological Handbook, London: SCM Press, →ISBN, part 3 (Ministry), page 126