| 释义 |
ˈpastness
[f. past ppl. a. + -ness.]
The state or condition of being past.
1829Jas. Mill Hum. Mind (1869) II. 119 To our conclusion, that ‘Time’ is the equivalent of Pastness, Presentness, and Futureness, combined, it may be objected, that the word ‘Time’ is applicable to all three cases. 1873Whitney Orient. Stud. 260 He will thus at a blow..reduce to a state of irretrievable pastness, a host of..philosophical systems. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xv. 605 They are associated with other things which for us signify pastness. But how do these things get their pastness? What is the original of our experience of pastness, from whence we get the meaning of the term? 1919T. S. Eliot Sel. Essays (1951) 14 The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence. 1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place v. 262 The very same characteristic..we took to be ‘pastness’ in other situations. 1941F. Matthiessen Amer. Renaissance XIV. iv. 654 He did not so often think of the presentness of the past as of the pastness of the present, of its illimitable shadowy extensions backward to the roots of history. 1954K. Tillotson Novels of Eighteen-Forties i. 111 The Brontës..turn from the present, emphasizing their choice by a specified..‘pastness’. 1973A. H. Sommerstein Sound Pattern Anc. Greek ii. 63 The verb whose pastness brings the rule into operation may be in the infinitive or participial form. 1977Theology LXXX. 201 The faith of the communion of saints..confers on the death of Jesus at least one kind of capacity to survive ‘pastness’ and to become in a valid sense objectively present for us. |