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单词 to consign to oblivion
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to consign (also †put) to (or †in) oblivion
a. The state or condition of being forgotten; (also, more generally) obscurity, nothingness, void, death. to fall (sink, etc.) into oblivion: to become forgotten or disused; (also) to die. to consign (also †put) to (or †in) oblivion: to forget entirely about (something), to abandon, regard as in the past.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [noun] > state of being forgotten, oblivion
forgettinga1050
oblivionc1425
oblivya1500
obliviance?1504
forgetfulness1561
obliviancy1820
forgottenness1924
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 1875 (MED) Worþines..Is but a wynde..Forȝetilnes leith it ofte a-syde By lengþe of ȝeris and obliuioun.
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 40 To..Throwyn it in the angle of oblyuyoun.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1337 Your names shalbe put to oblyuyone.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. iv. 91 Nor ȝit the thankis of sa frendful a deid Sal ony tyme into obliuion slyde.
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Ded. sig. diijv Drowned in the whirlepoole of obliuion.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 129 The swallowing gulph, Of blind forgetfulnesse and darke obliuion . View more context for this quotation
c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) Ep. Ded. 2 Quhat might betyed my sillie boat in the same seas quhaer sik a man's ship was sunck in the gulf of oblivion.
1697 J. Evelyn Numismata Introd. 2 Men have sought Immortality and Freedom from Oblivion, by Marbles, Statues, Trophies.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xii. 187 Writers of Travels, like Dictionary-Makers, are sunk into Oblivion by the Weight and Bulk of those who come after, and therefore lie uppermost.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. i. 9 A question..which ought to have been buried in oblivion.
1797 S. W. Morton Beacon Hill 7 The whole be consigned to hopeless oblivion.
1810 D. Stewart Philos. Ess. iii. 117 In England..this doctrine has sunk into complete oblivion.
1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Jrnls. II. 38 Let him pass into the garret of oblivion, where many things as good, or better, are piled away.
1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 1 Jan. 7/1 An old orchard going to decay, and no young trees to supply the places of those about to be consigned to oblivion.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Oct. 11/3 Judge Landis..has not yet consigned Babe Ruth to oblivion for..playing in the sticks for exhibition money.
1984 E. Pawel Nightmare of Reason (1988) p. xi Max Brod..twice rescued Kafka's work, first from physical destruction, later from indifference and oblivion.
1992 Amicus Jrnl. Summer 4/3 With the rise of eco-cracy,..the fundamental debate needed on public morality..falls into oblivion.
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