"memory-ridden" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1866, Henry Glassford Bell, “Haddon Hall”, in Romances and Minor Poems, London: Macmillan, page 95",
          "text": "Solemn in the summer noon,\nMemory-ridden, hope-bereft,\nGhost-like ’neath the midnight moon\nBy some trailing shadow cleft.",
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          "text": "1908, Iota (pseudonym of Kathleen Mannington Caffyn, The Magic of May, London: George Bell & Sons, Chapter 32, p. 309,\nThere 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."
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          "ref": "1914, Henry James, chapter 6, in Notes of a Son and Brother, page 204",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1939 October 19, Frank S. Nugent, “THE SCREEN: A Well-Played and Interestingly Told Drama Lurks Behind ‘Those High Grey Walls’ at Criterion”, in New York Times",
          "text": "Mr. Stevens’s portrayal of the taciturn, memory-ridden prison doctor is properly reticent, grave and sincere […]",
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        "Full of memories; oppressed or plagued by memories."
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          "text": "1908, Iota (pseudonym of Kathleen Mannington Caffyn, The Magic of May, London: George Bell & Sons, Chapter 32, p. 309,\nThere 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."
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