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

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

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

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

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