32 Verbs to Use for the Word forgetfulness

The multitude of his changed purposes brings with it forgetfulness, and not of others more than of himself.

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?

Having tried his best to pacify the cashier, he sought forgetfulness of these painful incidents in his work.

It had no compunction, no remorse in depriving human beings of their highest privileges; its whole tendency was to degrade the soul, and to cause forgetfulness of immortality.

The general of the army was its priest; he it was who, at the head of the ranks, gave the signal for prayer, uttered the words, reminded the troops of the precepts of the Koran, and enjoined upon them forgetfulness of personal quarrels.

Does not each succeeding day's entry in that journal disclose the party's forgetfulness of its declared mission to the mountains?

To the quaint old Flemish cities and the Gothic Rhineto the plains and passes of Spainto the unfrequented valleys of the Tyrol and the glacier-lands of Switzerland I went, but still found not the forgetfulness I sought.

Unquestionably this takes from the play of the children self-forgetfulness of one kind, but sometimes it gives to them self-forgetfulness of another, a rarer kind.

This would be to imply a forgetfulness on her part of her own methods, and a prostration of art to purposes she would have scorned to adopt.

North or south, after the railroad there is a stage journey of such interminable monotony as induces forgetfulness of all previous states of existence.

"From our home my thoughts have followed you in all your voyages, although I knew your forgetfulness and your infidelity.

There have been some hours of very steady plodding to-day; these are the best part of the business, they mean forgetfulness and advance.

To believe in the human beauty and glory of the feelings, and to rejoice in their power to unite us to our kind, need imply no forgetfulness of their demand for a wider expression and a higher communion.

Yet wake the well-strung lyre, and take thought of wrestlings; a strife for the bronze shield stirreth the folk to sacrifice of oxen unto Hera and to the issue of games, wherein the son of Oulias, Theaios, having overcome twice, hath obtained forgetfulness of the toils he lightly bore.

"You must overlook my forgetfulness.

He thought all women were alike and forgot; but if this broad-chested sailor could have seen his own blue jacket of six years before, perhaps it would have been a good argument to induce him to pardon Bertha's forgetfulness.

The remark was occasioned by my leaning back on a chair, which a little before I had perceived to be broken, and pleading forgetfulness as an excuse.

And she, too, would have succumbed to the agony of this realization, had not a kind swoon poured forgetfulness over her senses.

All Nature preaches forgetfulness.

Prescience, without a reason therefor which she would admit, prevented forgetfulness.

The weariness of the past day will produce some forgetfulness for an hour or two, and then come the slow, cold, sad hours through which the dawn has to be expected.

but I know your nature too well, not to feel certain that the sacrifice scarce cost you a thought, and that you regretted Rupert's self-forgetfulness more than the loss of the money.

" Then, as though repenting his forgetfulness, he suddenly asked: "And Pepa, your wife?

On the morrow of Valerie's funeral, Morange had returned to his work in a state of prostration which almost resembled forgetfulness.

No word Could move him, no allurement charm; he bade Me wait the dawn and then return to you, To beg you with humility for grace, And pardon for my utter want of truth, Complete forgetfulness of womanhood, And wifely loyalty.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  forgetfulness