annihilate
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Annihilate its existence in thought, and you annihilate the thing itself with all its predicates; how then can there be any room for contradiction?
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
O save me from my murderous dreams, thou bright Bosom of silence, mouth that sates the sense, Urn of oblivion, pillow of indolence; Annihilate me in thy bosom's night!
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
Annihilate this,—as in the French Revolution was attempted,—and society is at once reduced to its bare immediate force, and must scratch the soil with its fingers.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various
O Samas! may my prayer bring me sweet rest, And may my Lord his favor grant to me: Annihilate the things that me invest!
From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
Annihilate not the mercies of God by the oblivion of ingratitude.
From Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation by Whyte, Alexander
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