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
"Ah! not the nectarous poppy lovers use, Not daily labor's dull Lethean spring, Oblivion in lost angels can infuse Of the soil'd glory and the trailing wing."
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
Adown Lethean streams his spirit drifted, Under Elysian shades from poppied bank, With amaranths massed in dark luxuriance dank.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
The theory associated with this Lethean draught is confirmed by its responsive correspondence with many unutterable experiences, vividly felt or darkly recognised, in our deepest bosom.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
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 Melville, Herman
