Definition of "unforget"
unforget
verb
third-person singular simple present unforgets, present participle unforgetting, simple past unforgot, past participle unforgotten
(transitive, informal) To not forget; also, to remember again after forgetting.
Quotations
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, 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., […], 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., stanza 9, page 398
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 […], page 328
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, page 60
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, page 51
What would happen, for instance, if I tried to unforget the whole series of accidental and contingent encounters through which I entered the dense landscape of the hills?
1996, Kathleen Stewart, “Unforgetting: The Anecdotal and the Accidental”, in A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an “Other” America, Princeton, N.J., Chichester, West Sussex: Princeton University Press, page 71
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, page 132
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, part 3 (Ministry), page 126
This is but one of a number of instances of unforgetting throughout the story of Austerlitz through which he pieces together the shreds of his life as he unforgets his life before the Kindertransport and the journey from this life to another in Bala and beyond.
2012, Derek Mitchell, “Remembering and Unforgetting”, in Everyday Phenomenology, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 106
March 24, 2010 as I take down the navy blue folder that has always been devoted to my notes on "style," I notice on opening it that the cover's inner flap is concealed behind a glued-on sheet of paper. […] Without my usual hesitation, I rip it off the way one rips off, unforgets, peels, ferrets out, seeking the pure treasure, proof of the existence of life before us, without us, the book of our dead and of our betrayals.
2013, Hélène Cixous, “The Other Cold”, in Beverley Bie Brahic, transl., Twists and Turns in the Heart’s Antarctic, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, part I, page 44
These updated, detailed studies have given modern architecture a new face in a history that does not omit the presence of women. They have ‘unforgotten’ great architects like Charlotte Perriand, Lilly Reich and Marion Mahony Griffin.
2017, Florencia Fernandez Cardoso, “How Wide is the Gap? Evaluating Current Documentation of Women Architects in Modern Architecture History Books (2004–2014)”, in Marjan Groot, Helena Seražin, Caterina Franchini, Emilia Garda, Alenka Di Battista, editors, MoMoWo: Women Designers, Craftswomen, Architects and Engineers between 1918 and 1945 (Women’s Creativity; 1), Ljubljana, Slovenia: Založba ZRC, page 232