nihility

Example Sentences

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Eternity is not of longer duration than one second spent in nihility.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile

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

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

But nihility is inconsistent with the existence of living, reasoning—I know not what to call them—uniting in themselves, in a state of commenced synthesis or imminent dissolution, all the antagonistic attributes of being.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

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