Lethe
noun
a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
Lethean
-
a word derived from
Lethe.
Example Sentences
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It's less a lethal than a Lethean weapon, ie something resembling the river Lethe's mind-numbing waters which induce eternal forgetfulness of everything but better films on the same subject.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2010
Into that Lethean canal—pond-like in its smoothness as compared with the sea without—fell many a poor soul that night; fell, forever forgotten.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
Even, 'tis said, gentle Lethean dews bring blessed forgetfulness, release from love lost, sin committed.
From The Tarn of Eternity by Frank Tymon
By the ancient theory the Lethean dip extinguishes the memory of a past life, of its faults, and of their punishment; and thence the willingness to inhabit the gross, earthy frame, as generated anew.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
Lo! the god shakes over either temple a bough dripping with Lethean dew and made slumberous with the might of Styx, and makes his swimming eyes relax their struggles.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
