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Lethe

name
/ˈliːθi/

Etymology

From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē, “forgetfulness”).

  1. derived from Λήθη
  2. borrowed from Lēthē

Definitions

  1. The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.

  2. The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they…

    The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.

    • My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains / One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:

  3. Forgetfulness of the past

    Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.

    • So in the Lethe of thy angry ſoule, Thou drowne the ſad remembrance of thoſe wrongs, Which thou ſuppoſest I haue done to thee.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Dissimulation.

      • Till that the conquering Wine hath ſteep't our ſenſe, In ſoft and delicate Lethe.
      • What does it mean to say that the stream of silence originates in lethe? It means, above all, that the stream has its source (Quelle) in that which has not yet been said and which must remain unsaid: the "unsaid."

    2. Death.

      • Pardon me Iulius, here was't thou bay'd braue Hart, Heere did'ſt thou fall, and heere thy Hunters ſtand Sign'd in thy Spoyle, and Crimſon'd in thy Lethee.

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Derived

Lethean

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Lethe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA