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

The writers whom it ridicules, have sunk into nihility.

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

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.

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

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