nonentity
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“What universal binomial denominations were his as Entity and Nonentity? Assumed by any or known to none he was Everyman or Noman.”
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2018
Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall.
From Time Magazine Archive
Georgina treats me like a Perfect Nonentity and then he comes——It's so inconsiderate.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
"Come on, little Miss Nonentity, let's go to bed or I won't get up early enough to-morrow morning to see Mabel Ashe before my first recitation."
From Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
Thus by degrees it passed into a Doubt, a Relation, some faint Possibility; and at last into a highly-probable Nonentity.
From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Oxenford, John
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