nonentity

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“What universal binomial denominations were his as Entity and Nonentity? Assumed by any or known to none he was Everyman or Noman.”

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2018

Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Nonentity, I am told, writes indexes to perfection, makes essays, and reviews any work with a single day’s warning.—Goldsmith,

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Loud-blaring Nonentity, no force of trumpets, cash, Long-Acre art, or universal flunkeyhood of men, makes thee an Entity; thou art a _Non_entity, and deceptive Simulacrum, more accursed than thou seemest.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

Georgina treats me like a Perfect Nonentity and then he comes——It's so inconsiderate.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)