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pastness

[ past-nis ]

noun

  1. the state or fact of being past.


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Origin of pastness1

First recorded in 1820–30; past + -ness
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This Is the process whereby pain of the past in its pastness May be converted into the future tense.

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Eliot put it nearly a century ago, the historical sense “involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.”

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Eliot called a sense “not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.”

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Last June, when its fourth season concluded, “The Americans” was a series about the pastness of the past.

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Your discussion of that passage is brilliant, you extrapolate much from it about “the culmination of a theory of pastness” and also how it describes succinctly Bellow’s “lastingness.”

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