forgetive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of forgetive
First recorded in 1590–1600; perhaps forge 1 + (cre)ative
Example Sentences
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With an understanding fertile, subtle, expansive, "quick, forgetive, apprehensive," beyond all living precedent, few traces of it will perhaps remain.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
Howsoever "apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes" his brain may be, it never gambols from the superintendence of his reason and understanding.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various
O quick and forgetive power! that sometimes dost So rob us of ourselves, we take no mark Though round about us thousand trumpets clang!
From The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 3 by Henry Francis Cary
O quick and forgetive power! that sometimes dost So rob us of ourselves, we take no mark Though round about us thousand trumpets clang!
From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory by Henry Francis Cary
With an understanding fertile, subtle, expansive, “quick, forgetive, apprehensive,” beyond all living precedent, few traces of it will perhaps remain.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
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