2 uses
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Definition
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
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
- Lourdes cure, waters of oblivion, and the Knock apparition, statues bleeding.Episode 5 — Lotus Eaters (63% in)
- All the same Bloom (properly so dubbed) was rather surprised at their memories for in nine cases out of ten it was a case of tarbarrels and not singly but in their thousands and then complete oblivion because it was twenty odd years.Episode 16 — Eumaeus (68% in)
There are no more uses of "oblivion" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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