nihility

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No one has better expressed the anguish of a troubled and despairing soul, such as we find in the old harp-player in Wilhelm Meister, or the splendid nihility of certain poems of Michelangelo.

From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary

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 Rossetti, William Michael

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

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

Out of those eyes and that long, thin face stared death; not hot, sudden death, but nihility, cool, deliberate, that waited for one!

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.