pastlessadj.

Brit.

/ˈpɑːstləs/,

/ˈpastləs/, U.S.

/ˈpæs(t)ləs/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: past n., -less suffix.

Etymology: < past n. + -less suffix. Compare earlier futureless adj.

Having no past or history; having no sense of a past.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective] > having no past

pastless1906

1906 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 8 Dec. 6/2 Speeding the minuteless hours by, From the path of the pastless now.

c1945 W. Everson And What is Man in Coll. Poems (1997) I. i. 345 In a country so new, so pastless in all that pertained to their fluctuant lives.

1954 W. Faulkner Fable 21 The perfect soldier: pastless, unhampered, and complete.

1971 S. Cavell World Viewed 97 His people are without fantasy (hence pastless and futureless, hence presentless).

2001 Sunday Times (Nexis) 18 Feb. The pastless world of scientism and technology.

Derivatives

ˈpastlessness n.

ΚΠ

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pastlessness, the quality or state of being without a past or a sense of the past.

1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 181 This is how it must be, to be lately dead, this lostness, this vague objectless longing, this pastlessness.

1997 M. R. Stoll Protestantism, Capitalism, & Nature in Amer. ii. v. 120 Like Jefferson, Gilpin gloried in the pastlessness of the New World that freed Americans from the encumbrances of history.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pastless
释义	pastlessadj. Brit. /ˈpɑːstləs/, /ˈpastləs/, U.S. /ˈpæs(t)ləs/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: past n., -less suffix. Etymology: < past n. + -less suffix. Compare earlier futureless adj. Having no past or history; having no sense of a past. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective] > having no past pastless1906 1906 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 8 Dec. 6/2 Speeding the minuteless hours by, From the path of the pastless now. c1945 W. Everson And What is Man in Coll. Poems (1997) I. i. 345 In a country so new, so pastless in all that pertained to their fluctuant lives. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable 21 The perfect soldier: pastless, unhampered, and complete. 1971 S. Cavell World Viewed 97 His people are without fantasy (hence pastless and futureless, hence presentless). 2001 Sunday Times (Nexis) 18 Feb. The pastless world of scientism and technology. Derivatives ˈpastlessness n. ΚΠ 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pastlessness, the quality or state of being without a past or a sense of the past. 1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 181 This is how it must be, to be lately dead, this lostness, this vague objectless longing, this pastlessness. 1997 M. R. Stoll Protestantism, Capitalism, & Nature in Amer. ii. v. 120 Like Jefferson, Gilpin gloried in the pastlessness of the New World that freed Americans from the encumbrances of history. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1906
随便看	to button up one's mouth to buy a bastoned gown of to buy a bastoned gown of a person to buy a borough to buy a brush to buy a cat in the sack to buy a dog and bark oneself to buy a pig in a poke to buy a pup to buy and sell to buy back the farm to buy brushwood on or at the stub to buy down to buy etc on or at the stub to buy in to buy into to buy it to buy low and sell high to buy low sell high to buy money to buy off to buy on dip to buy on margin to buy on or at the stub to buy on the stump