nihility

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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 Rossetti, William Michael

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 replied with my usual forbearance.—Certainly, to give up the algebraic symbol, because A or B is often a cover for ideal nihility, would be unwise.

From Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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 Maupassant, Guy de