nihility
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—I replied with my usual forbearance.—Certainly, to give up the algebraic symbol, because A or B is often a cover for ideal nihility, would be unwise.
From Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 Erasmus Darwin
At the happiest periods of my existence I often became a prey to grim dejection such as nobody could understand but which was caused by the thought of impending nihility.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
Eternity is not of longer duration than one second spent in nihility.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
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 Mary Blaiklock
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