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
It is this mood of wearied, benumbed, discouraged, hopeless hope, feebly seeking for the "Lethean peace of the skies" only to find the mind inevitably reverting to the "lost Ulalume," that finds expression.
From Selections from Poe by J. Montgomery Gambrill
Lethean spring thou'rt only found Within this ideal hunting ground.
From Flint and Feather by E. Pauline Johnson
Her ministers had a sweet Lethean draught with which to lull the first clamors of awakening life, to quiet the first promptings of individual thought.
From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Julia Ward Howe
I glimpsed the couple, with immeasurable aloofness, as phantoms flickering about the mirage of a brook, throwing ghostly bread crumbs to Lethean minnows.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
