nihility
Americannoun
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No one has better expressed the anguish of a troubled and despairing soul, such as we find in the old harp-player in Wilhelm Meister, or the splendid nihility of certain poems of Michelangelo.
From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary
It was not, however, in order to arrive at that state of delicious, intellectual nihility, thai we had gone to mysterious Whitechapel.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de
Out of those eyes and that long, thin face stared death; not hot, sudden death, but nihility, cool, deliberate, that waited for one!
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.
The writers whom it ridicules, have sunk into nihility.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
Nor is there any one, I suppose, who has passed the meridian of life, who has not at some moments felt the nihility of all things.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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