Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Death.
- An obsolete variant of
lithe . - noun In Gr. myth.: The personification of oblivion, a daughter of Eris.
- noun The river of oblivion, one of the streams of Hades, the waters of which possessed the quality of causing those who drank of them to forget their former existence.
- noun A draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.
- noun In entomology, a genus of nymphalid butterflies, with one species, L. europa, from the Malay archipelago.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Class. Myth.) A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.
- noun Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.
- noun obsolete Death.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Greek mythology) a river in Hades; the souls of the dead had to drink from it, which made them forget all they had done and suffered when they were alive
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Examples
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Greeks at the time, long before Aristotle, understood what Aletheia was, with heavy influence of what "lethe" was.
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About as meaningless as the word ‘freedom’ is. lethe Says:
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These are less confrontational and pose no legal threats lethe
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It accounts for concealment (lethe) in unconcealment, which in turn accounts for withholding (epechein) in the epochs.
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"The event of appropriation is in itself an event of expropriation; this word takes up, in a manner commensurate with the event, the early Greek lethe, in the sense of concealment."
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It accounts for concealment (lethe) in unconcealment, which in turn accounts for withholding (epechein) in the epochs.
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"The event of appropriation is in itself an event of expropriation; this word takes up, in a manner commensurate with the event, the early Greek lethe, in the sense of concealment."
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The link is made explicit in the first seminar where, in his analysis of repression in the Freudian sense, we come across the following observation: 'In every entry of being into its habitation in words, there's a margin of forgetting, a lethe complementary to every aletheia.
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The link is made explicit in the first seminar where, in his analysis of repression in the Freudian sense, we come across the following observation: 'In every entry of being into its habitation in words, there's a margin of forgetting, a lethe complementary to every aletheia.
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Meanwhile, Heidegger described lethe as a horizon from which things/beings emerge and to which beings rest.
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kat commented on the word lethe
daimona of oblivion.
April 7, 2008
qms commented on the word lethe
Surely the most famous applications of this word are in the opening stanzas of two of Keats' Great Odes:
Ode to a Nightingale
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:...
Ode on Melancholy
NO, no! go not to Lethe, neither twist
Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;
Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kist
By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine;...
July 2, 2014
qms commented on the word lethe
He favors cold beer, crisp but yeasty,
Sweet smoke rising, thick and wreathy,
Til strangers seem friends
Who'll float 'round the bends,
Adrift with poor Ernest on the Lethe.
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July 2, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word lethe
I know not Lethe nor Nepenthe. (It always makes me think of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.)
July 2, 2014