obliviation
English
editEtymology
editFrom obliviate (“to forget; to wipe from existence”) + -ion (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
editobliviation (countable and uncountable, plural obliviations)
- 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.