Both Uses of
oblivion
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "Suffer me, also, madame," replied Villefort, "to add my earnest request to Mademoiselle de Saint-Meran's, that you will kindly allow the veil of oblivion to cover and conceal the past.†
Chpt 5-6
- Seek quietude and oblivion, so that you may return peaceably to France after a few years.†
Chpt 91-92 *
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