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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈliːθi/Sorted eehltStarts with LEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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:
  • By the grey sea-side, unassuaged, unheard of, / Unbeloved, unseen in the ebb of twilight, / Ghosts of outcast women return lamenting, / Purged not in Lethe,
  • A well-fed man is not driven to drink by the craving that torments the hungry; and the comfortable do not crave for the boon of forgetfulness. Gin is the only Lethe of the miserable.

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