forgettings

Freud claimed that these two forgettings are related—that repression is the root of both.

The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994

It would be long before Lord Rufford would be for = gotten, — and she had not space enough before her for forgettings which would require time for their accomplishment.

The American Senator 2004

In some countries, pyschological obstacles created by such denials and forgettings stand in the way of forming easily those voluntary and close partnerships with other nations such as all free nations must somehow secure and maintain.

Canada's Partnership in Freedom 1946

He had not spoken of it again; she perceived that he had forgotten it; and she herself forgot that the memory of a boy is never to be depended on; its forgettings are too seldom permanent in the case of things that ought to stay forgotten.

The Flirt 1912

He had not spoken of it again; she perceived that he had forgotten it; and she herself forgot that the memory of a boy is never to be depended on; its forgettings are too seldom permanent in the case of things that ought to stay forgotten.

The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907

And his own forgettings were so easy that the easy forgetting of others seemed a foregone conclusion.

The Incomplete Amorist 1891

In this book of my memories, which is also the book of my forgettings, I must walk to and fro freely, if I am to walk at all.

Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890

In London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, the tide of gossip overflowed with his name and carried in its current tales of his greatness, his cruelty, his lawless loves and his quick forgettings.

Nancy Stair A Novel Elinor Macartney Lane 1886

But at the third announcement of his forgettings I lost patience with him.

Nancy Stair A Novel Elinor Macartney Lane 1886

Instead of this, the old round of temptations, disputes, _ennuis_, and forgettings, has to be faced again and again, and we fall back into prose, into commonness, into vulgarity.

Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885