Both Uses of
oblivion
in
Hard Times
- Never fear, good people of an anxious turn of mind, that Art will consign Nature to oblivion.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- These were the last words spoken by the whelp, before a giddy drowsiness came upon him, followed by complete oblivion.†
Chpt 2.3
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