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nihility

[nahy-hil-i-tee, nee-] / naɪˈhɪl ɪ ti, ni- /


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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 William Michael Rossetti

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 Guy de Maupassant

The writers whom it ridicules, have sunk into nihility.

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

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 Erasmus Darwin

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

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola




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