Both Uses of
oblivion
in
The House of Mirth
- The sublimities, the perpetuities, might have left him as he was: but this tent pitched for a day's revelry spread a roof of oblivion between himself and his fixed sky.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- She must shut them out for a few hours; she must take a brief bath of oblivion.†
Chpt 2.13
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