Antonyms for oblivion
əˈblɪv i ənobliv·ion

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1. oblivionnoun

   Antonyms:
   resurrection

2. oblivionnoun

   Antonyms:
   resurrection

3. oblivionnoun

   Antonyms:
   resurrection

4. oblivionnoun

   Antonyms:
   resurrection

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1. oblivionnoun

   Acquittal is a release from a charge, after trial, as not guilty. Pardon is a removal of penalty from one who has been adjudged guilty. Acquittal is by the decision of a court, commonly of a jury; pardon is the act of the executive. An innocent man may demand acquittal, and need not plead for pardon. Pardon supposes an offense; yet, as our laws stand, to grant a pardon is sometimes the only way to release one who has been wrongly convicted. Oblivion, from the Latin, signifies overlooking and virtually forgetting an offense, so that the offender stands before the law in all respects as if it had never been committed. Amnesty brings the same idea through the Greek. Pardon affects individuals; amnesty and oblivion are said of great numbers. Pardon is oftenest applied to the ordinary administration of law; amnesty, to national and military affairs. An amnesty is issued after war, insurrection, or rebellion; it is often granted by "an act of oblivion," and includes a full pardon of all offenders who come within its provisions. Absolution is a religious word (compare synonyms for ABSOLVE). Remission is a discharge from penalty; as, the remission of a fine.

   Antonyms:
   penalty, punishment, retaliation, retribution, vengeance

   Synonyms:
   absolution, acquittal, amnesty, forbearance, forgiveness, mercy, pardon, pardon, remission

   Preposition:
   A pardon to or for the offenders; for all offenses; the pardon of offenders or offenses.

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1. oblivionnoun

   Antonyms:
   remembrance, recollection, memory, reminiscence, commemoration, celebration

   Synonyms:
   forgetfulness, disremembrance

Matched Categories

1. • Forgetfulness
   • Obscurity

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1. oblivion, limbonoun

   the state of being disregarded or forgotten

   Synonyms:
   limbo, obliviousness

2. obliviousness, oblivionnoun

   total forgetfulness

   "he sought the great oblivion of sleep"

   Synonyms:
   limbo, obliviousness

How to use oblivion in a sentence?

1. Mira Nairs:

   Portraying the reality of what we were living around was so funny compared to anything else, and yet it was a portrait of ignorance and of complete oblivion about what the reality of the world is.

2. State John Kerry:

   You can't bomb knowledge into oblivion unless you kill everybody. You can't bomb it away, the question is, can you provide an adequate level ... of intrusive inspections, structured tough requirements, limitations, all the insights necessary to be able to know to a certainty that a program is peaceful.

3. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus:

   As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

4. Noam Chomsky:

   Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

5. Chris Kenny:

   He's one dumb knighthood away from oblivion.

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