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lethe
/ˈliːθi/
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What does lethe mean?
noun
- Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.
- Dissimulation.
proper noun
- The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.
More meanings (2)
proper noun
- The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.
noun
- (obsolete, rare) Death.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈliːθi/
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Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
At the theatre royal in the House of Lords, the Royal Slave, with Lethe.
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The world has quietly run down, and has been embalmed with all its sweetness of light and colour and sound in a warm Lethe bath of sun.
Gin is the only Lethe of the miserable.
Let us keep steadily on with the music, and lead our Eurydice right through Hades until we have her safely over the Lethe, and we know sentimentality only as a name.