unforget

present singular third person unforgets · participle present unforgetting · past unforgot · participle past unforgotten · alternative un-forget

1. informaltransitiveTo not forget; also, to remember again after forgetting.

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

   1892, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Pennsylvania Pilgrim”, in The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier […], volumes I (Narrative and Legendary Poems), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 328

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   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.

   1852 January, “A Stranger Here”, in The Quarterly Journal of Prophecy, volume IV, London: James Nisbet and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VI, page 111

   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!

   1866, Elizabeth Akers [Allen], “My Peace”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 122

   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: […]

   1866 November, J. M. Sherwood, editor, Hours at Home; a Popular Magazine of Religious and Useful Literature, volume IV, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza IV, page 47

   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."

   1884 July, Mary L. Ritter, “Captive”, in The Century Illustrated Magazine, volume VI (New Series; volume XXVIII overall), number 3, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: F[rederick] Warne & Co., →OCLC, stanza 9, page 398

   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; […]

   1892, Percy Withers, “Sidney at Penshurst”, in A Selection of Verses from The Manchester University Magazine, 1868–1912 (University of Manchester Publications; no. LXXXVI), Manchester: University Press, published 1913, →OCLC, page 60