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Definition of "lethean" []

  • Of or pertaining to Lethe; resembling in effect the water of Lethe. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "lethean" in a sentence
  • "Yet she had again dared to call herself happy; united to her admirer, to him who possessed and filled her whole heart, she yielded to the lethean powers of love, and knew and felt only his life and presence."
  • "In our mother-tongue prevails the same principle of dualism, the same conflict of elements, which not all the lethean baptism of the"
  • "Oh, for some lethean draught that I might drink and forget!"