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Meanings of pastness in английском

The quality of being past.

Антонимы
Examples for "futurity"
Examples for "futurity"
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The black eyes in the bronzed face looked into futurity and infinity.
The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain
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The vow which unites us with truth makes futurity present with us.
Historical Papers / Part 3 from Volume VI of The Works of John G...
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Above all you are delivered from all apprehensions concerning death and futurity.
Zenobia; or, the Fall of Palmyra
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Nor is there, indeed, any present loss, in such respect for futurity.
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
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With regard to futurity, we are to treat it like a ward.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)
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Wildly exhilarating, This Variation concerns presence and presentness, and what it means to be a spectator.
The Guardian
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'A vast onset of self-centered presentness.
The Descent
Usage of pastness in английском
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In the latter case, but not in the former, the pastness is part of the content believed.
The Analysis of Mind
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They give to the memory image a feeling of pastness and trueness which the image of imagination lacks.
How to Teach
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So, in memory, the pastness lies, not in the content of what is believed, but in the nature of the belief-feeling.
The Analysis of Mind
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There may be a specific feeling which could be called the feeling of "pastness," especially where immediate memory is concerned.
The Analysis of Mind
Pastness through the time