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Oblivion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance.

2. Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

3. A forgetting of offenses, or remission of punishment. An act of oblivion is an amnesty, or general pardon of crimes and offenses, granted by a sovereign, by which punishment is remitted.

Oblivion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.

2. Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion.

Inexistence Roget’s Thesaurus §2

N. inexistence, nonexistence, nonsubsistence, # nonentity, nil, negativeness, nullity, nihility, nihilism, tabula rasa, blank, abeyance, absence, no such thing, nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion, annihilation, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, nirvana, obliteration

V. not exist, have no existence, be null and void, cease to exist, pass away, perish, be extinct, become extinct, die out, disappear, melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind, go, be no more, die, annihilate, render null, nullify, abrogate, destroy, take away, remove, obliterate, extirpate

Adj. inexistent, nonexistent, negative, blank, missing, omitted, absent, insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary, unreal, potential, virtual, baseless, in nubibus, unsubstantial, vain, unborn, uncreated, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade, perished, annihilated, &c. v, extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind, defunct, fabulous, ideal, supposititious

Adv. negatively, virtually

Phr. non ens, 2, being, in the concrete

Oblivion Roget’s Thesaurus §506

N. oblivion, obliviousness, lethe, forgetfulness, amnesia, obliteration of, insensibility to the past, short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery memory, failing memory, decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory, waters of lethe, waters of oblivion, amnesty, general pardon, repressed memory

V. forget, be forgetful, fall into oblivion, sink into oblivion, have a short memory, have no head, forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one ear and go out the other, slip memory, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the memory, lose, lose sight of, fail to recall, not be able to recall, unlearn, efface, discharge from the memory, consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the capulets, think no more of, cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from, let bygones be bygones

Adj. forgotten, unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of mind, buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion, clean forgotten, gone out of one's head, gone out of one's recollection, forgetful, oblivious, mindless, lethean, insensible to the past, heedless

Phr. non mi ricordo, the memory failing, the memory deserting one, being at (or in) fault, 2. to the future

Forgiveness Roget’s Thesaurus §918

N. forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace, # remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion, indulgence, reprieve, conciliation, reconcilement, reconciliation, propitiation, excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity, bill of indemnity, act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity, exculpation, longanimity, placability, amantium irae, locus paenitentiae, forbearance

V. forgive, forgive and forget, pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands, forget an injury, excuse, pass over, overlook, wink at, bear with, allow for, make allowances for, let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront, let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve, acquit, beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon, conciliate, propitiate, placate, make up a quarrel, let the wound heal

Adj. forgiving, placable, conciliatory, forgiven, unresented, unavenged, unrevenged

Adv. cry you mercy

Phr. veniam petimusque damusque vicissim, more in sorrow than in anger, comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner, "the offender never pardons"