oblivion
/əˈblɪviːən/ sustantivo C1En español: olvido, olvidanza, nada, desmemoria
- The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead. · He regularly drank himself into oblivion.· Only the oblivion of sleep can heal the greatest traumas.
- The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, including through war and destruction. (Figuratively) for an area like hell, a wasteland. · They tried to bomb them into oblivion.· I will cast them into oblivion!
- A form of purgatory.
Plural oblivions
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“Suffer me, also, madame,” replied Villefort, “to add my earnest request to Mademoiselle de Saint-Méran’s, that you will kindly allow the veil of oblivion to cover and conceal the past.
I assure you once for all that I did not mean to intoxicate Diana and henceforth I shall cover the past with the mantle of oblivion.’ That was a pretty dignified way of speaking wasn’t it, Marilla?”
She determined to “shroud her feelings in deepest oblivion,” and it may be stated here and now that she did it, so successfully that Gilbert, who possibly was not quite so indifferent as he seemed, could not console himself with any belief that Anne felt his retaliatory scorn.
Seek quietude and oblivion, so that you may return peaceably to France after a few years.
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