Both Uses
oblivion
in
Anna Karenina
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- And every time he was brought back from a moment of oblivion by a scream reaching him from the bedroom, he fell into the same strange terror that had come upon him the first minute.†
Part 7oblivion = a state of being completely gone from memory, existence, or awareness
- There had been a period of repose, and he had sunk into oblivion.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(oblivion) state of complete loss—being totally forgotten, wiped out, or lost to awareness of what is going on
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)