nihility

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile

There are many things on the Earth, which would be nihility to the inhabitants of Venus—many things visible and tangible in Venus, which we could not be brought to appreciate as existing at all.

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

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

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