nihility

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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

A man who once takes such a jump at nobility, Must not mince the matter, like folks of nihility, But clear thick and thin with true lordly agility.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

We treat it as a positive nihility, "a barrier from which all our batted balls of being rebound."

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

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 Zola, Émile

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