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oblivion

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Oblivion is the final book in The Power of Five series. It marks a change in the narrative, being set in the future - 2018 is the affirmed setting. It is ten years on from the other four books in the series and the world is in dark times. The Old Ones have ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oblivion \Ob*liv"i*on\, n. [L. oblivio, akin to oblivisci to forget: cf. OF. oblivion.] The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness. Second childishness and mere oblivion. --Shak. Among our crimes oblivion ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB consign ▪ Their works have disappeared as a result, and there are many more interesting things that have been consigned to oblivion . ▪ This city forgets the good with the bad; all are consigned to the same oblivion ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "state or fact of forgetting," from Old French oblivion (13c.) and directly from Latin oblivionem (nominative oblivio ) "forgetfulness; a being forgotten," from oblivisci (past participle oblitus ) "forget," originally "even out, smooth over, ...

Usage examples of oblivion.

It is another key discovery that the old seers made, but in their aberration they relegated it to oblivion until it was rescued by the new seers.

Oblivion was close enough within his reach as he sat there, the aquarium on his lap.

Back in the auberge, I had imagined many possible derangements of the Pliocene world, fierce beasts, inhospitable terrain, exploitation of newcomers by the earlier arrivals among the time-farers, even a malfunction of the translational field that would cast the poor travelers into oblivion.

As he handed his briefcase the phone, the bureaucrat could hear the last of his agent unraveling itself back into oblivion.

Elto caught a few words about a sleeping princess, a hidden and magical city, a lost hero from the Butlerian Jihad who would slumber in oblivion until he rose again to save the Imperium.

Park of Extinct Animals was breached and many of the inner enclosures were opened, releasing into the wilderness nearly the entire extraordinary collection of carefully cloned beasts of yesteryear: moas, quaggas, giant ground sloths, dodos, passenger pigeons, aurochs, oryxes, saber-toothed cats, great auks, cahows and many another lost species that had been called back from oblivion by the most painstaking manipulation of fossil genetic material.

Every player has cheated death, surviving a killing dose of venom to balance on the edge of oblivion, returning with the magic puntas possess.

She put on her clothes in seeming oblivion that I was a man, but without shewing any sights that could be called indecent.

Beatrice did not need any bidding and after Frans had covered her with a rug, she allowed herself bar to sink into the strange silence that preluded the eird feelings which led to oblivion.

Likely they would slowly descend in a spiral orbit until they reached the singularity and oblivion, but here, near the top of the ergosphere, there was still a chance.

Soldier Handler dropped him five times in four rounds, and then stopped a right-hander that knocked him clear out of the ring and into fistic oblivion.

One hand raised, Judge Lawless was about to fling it sideward as a signal for the firing squad to blast Fleech into oblivion.

And when the first frump blast exploded a glass counter full of jewelry to oblivion, the place became a madhouse of screaming, writhing insanity.

Leopold and Loeb, Capone and Dillinger, Gacy and Gein, Speck and Bundy, and the rest of the parolees from oblivion strolled away, a swaggering gait, leaving the cornfield, hitting the dark road that passed outside the farm, a short walk that would take them into the heart of a town called Plum Creek.

Hess, Herder, Paulus, Schleiermacher, Hase, Neander, Ebrard, Weisse, Ewald, Keim, and Renan must be content to lie in oblivion.