obliviation

English

Noun

obliviation (uncountable)

  1. Total removal or erasure.
    • 1890, Journal of Materia Medica, volume 28, page 148:
      The result is, three months after taking the first dose, an entire obliviation of the varicosed portion of the vein, with complete absorption of the mass.
    • 1905, Methodist Protestant Church. Ohio Conference, Official Minutes:
      She has taken a prominent part in all reform movements, the abolition of slavery, the obliviation of the rum power and guarding the sanctity of the Christian Sabbath, etc.
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