Oblivion Definition

Oblivion Sentence Examples

• The soldiers seemed determined to drink themselves into oblivion.

• A considerable part of Cavendish's work was rescued from oblivion in 1879 and placed in an easily accessible form by Professor Clerk Maxwell, who edited the original manuscripts in the possession of the duke of Devonshire.'

• Toward morning all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon's doctor, Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence.

• Then, just as it appears to have been sinking into oblivion among the people, the clergy themselves gave it the character of a specific religious festival.

• There were also other minor orders in the ancient church which have fallen into oblivion or lost their clerical character.