memory-ridden

memory-ridden

English

Etymology

memory +‎ ridden

Adjective

memory-ridden (comparative more memory-ridden, superlative most memory-ridden)

1. Full of memories; oppressed or plagued by memories.
   • 1866, Henry Glassford Bell, “Haddon Hall” in Romances and Minor Poems, London: Macmillan, p. 95,

     Solemn in the summer noon,

     Memory-ridden, hope-bereft,

     Ghost-like ’neath the midnight moon

     By some trailing shadow cleft.

   • 1908, Iota (pseudonym of Kathleen Mannington Caffyn, The Magic of May, London: George Bell & Sons, Chapter 32, p. 309,

     There was nothing to be afraid of that Ronny could see. And yet he was himself thrilled to an irrational memory-ridden fear of some cowardice somewhere afoot.

   • 1914, Henry James, Notes of a Son and Brother, Chapter 6, p. 204,

     Do I roll several occasions into one, or amplify one beyond reason? — this last being ever, I allow, the waiting pitfall of a chronicler too memory-ridden.

   • 1939, Frank S. Nugent, “THE SCREEN: A Well-Played and Interestingly Told Drama Lurks Behind ‘Those High Grey Walls’ at Criterion,” New York Times, 19 October, 1939,

     Mr. Stevens’s portrayal of the taciturn, memory-ridden prison doctor is properly reticent, grave and sincere […]