memory-ridden
English
Adjective
memory-ridden (comparative more memory-ridden, superlative most memory-ridden)
- Full of memories; oppressed or plagued by memories.
- 1866, Henry Glassford Bell, “Haddon Hall”, in Romances and Minor Poems, London: Macmillan, page 95:
- Solemn in the summer noon,
Memory-ridden, hope-bereft,
Ghost-like ’neath the midnight moon
By some trailing shadow cleft.
- 1908, Iota (pseudonym of Kathleen Mannington Caffyn, The Magic of May, London: George Bell & Sons, Chapter 32, p. 309,
- There was nothing to be afraid of that Ronny could see. And yet he was himself thrilled to an irrational memory-ridden fear of some cowardice somewhere afoot.
- 1914, Henry James, chapter 6, in Notes of a Son and Brother, page 204:
- Do I roll several occasions into one, or amplify one beyond reason? — this last being ever, I allow, the waiting pitfall of a chronicler too memory-ridden.
- 1939 October 19, Frank S. Nugent, “THE SCREEN: A Well-Played and Interestingly Told Drama Lurks Behind ‘Those High Grey Walls’ at Criterion”, in New York Times:
- Mr. Stevens’s portrayal of the taciturn, memory-ridden prison doctor is properly reticent, grave and sincere […]
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