Both Uses of
oblivion
in
War and Peace
- Toward morning all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon's doctor, Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence.†
Chpt 3 *
- For him it was no new conviction that his presence in any part of the world, from Africa to the steppes of Muscovy alike, was enough to dumfound people and impel them to insane self-oblivion.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(oblivion) the state of being completely forgotten
or:
the state of being completely destroyed -- typically so as to no longer exist
or:
a state of having lost all sense of what is going on -- as during sleep or use of some drugs