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- noun Persisting effect of
memory ofpast events .
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Examples
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That has to do with transforming a death-dealing idea into a life-giving idea, in creating a new mneme from the Greek word for memory that will reproduce among our species in the same way a gene does and convince us to save us from ourselves by restoring the Earth to balance.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Alanna Mitchell 2011
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Finally, after many minutes of struggle, I put on my thinking boots andinventeda newword: mnemencholy, derived from mneme (memory) and melancholy (sadness).
Lexicographical Love « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008
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Finally, after many minutes of struggle, I put on my thinking boots andinventeda newword: mnemencholy, derived from mneme (memory) and melancholy (sadness).
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Again, the word istoria (enquiry) bears upon the face of it the stopping (istanai) of the stream; and the word piston (faithful) certainly indicates cessation of motion; then, again, mneme (memory), as any one may see, expresses rest in the soul, and not motion.
The CRATYLUS Plato 1975
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In illustration of the use of mneme in this sense Du Cange cites Act. Conc.
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There is episteme, which is connected with stasis, as mneme is with meno.
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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If there is a river of _mneme_ as a counterpart of the river
Our Hundred Days in Europe Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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If there is a river of _mneme_ as a counterpart of the river
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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And the mneme to be altered corrects a mangled interpretation of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Alanna Mitchell 2011
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(enquiry) bears upon the face of it the stopping (istanai) of the stream; and the word piston (faithful) certainly indicates cessation of motion; then, again, mneme (memory), as any one may see, expresses rest in the soul, and not motion.
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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Psychology, persisting effect of memory of past events. (From Luciferous Logolepsy)
June 9, 2008