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oblivion Noun 1. the condition of being forgotten or disregarded: the Marxist-Leninist wing of the party looks set to sink into oblivion 2. the state of being unaware or unconscious: guests seemed to feel a social obligation to drink themselves into oblivion [Latin oblivio forgetfulness]
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oblivion Translationsoblivion [əˈblɪvɪən] n (= unconsciousness) → Bewusstlosigkeit f (= being forgotten); Vergessenheit f; to sink into oblivion [event etc] → in Vergessenheit geraten oblivion [əˈblɪvɪən] n → oblio |
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But in the other two destructions, by deluge and earthquake, it is further to be noted, that the remnant of people which hap to be reserved, are commonly ignorant and mountainous people, that can give no account of the time past; so that the oblivion is all one, as if none had been left. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. As the supreme perfection and universality of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" cast into oblivion whatever pre-Homeric poets had essayed, so these same qualities exercised a paralysing influence over the successors of Homer. |
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