rare. [see -ING2.] That forgets, forgetful.
1847. Emerson, Poems, Uriel, 43.
| Straightway, a forgetting wind | |
| Stole over the celestial kind, | |
| And their lips the secret kept, | |
| If in ashes the fire-seed slept. |
1855. H. Clarke, Dict., Forgetting.
Hence Forgettingly adv., in a forgetful manner; forgetfully; through forgetfulness.
1605. B. Jonson, Volpone, IV. vi. I fear I haue (forgettingly) transgrest Against the dignity of the Court.
1650. Hall, Grounds Monarchy, in Harrington, Oceana (1700), 14. Which … partly in this penury of Books, forgettingly I pass.
