oblivion
/əˈblɪviːən/ verb C2- To consign to oblivion; to efface utterly.
He/she/it oblivions · Past oblivioned · Past participle oblivioned · -ing form oblivioning
Verb forms
- Base form
- oblivion
- He/she/it
- oblivions
- Past
- oblivioned
- Past participle
- oblivioned
- -ing form
- oblivioning
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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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