nihility

Example Sentences

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The writers whom it ridicules, have sunk into nihility.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous

When we reach the latter, we feel an almost irresistible inclination to class it with spirit, or with nihility.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

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

I never can forget the blank nihility of all existence that dreadful moment when I stood fumbling for what was not.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

The matter under consideration was how to return Brassfield to his much-to-be-desired nihility: how to recover Amidon from his relapse into occultation.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson