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Nihility

noun
1.
The state of nonexistence.  Synonyms: nothingness, nullity, void.






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"Nihility" Quotes from Famous Books



... never have wooed by kisses and won, or he would not have flounder-flatted so just and humorous, nor less pleasing than humorous, an image into so profound a nihility. In the name of love and wonder, do not four kisses make a double affirmative? The humour lies in the whispered "No!" and the inviting "Don't!" with which the maiden's kisses are accompanied, and thence compared to negatives, which ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge

... inanity of sublunary things has afforded a theme to philosophers, moralists, and divines, from the earliest records of antiquity; "Vanity of vanities!" says the preacher, "all is vanity!" 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. ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... of this lord-manufactory, I've merely to hint, as a secret auricular, One grand rule of enterprise,—don't be particular. 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 ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... have wooed by kisses and won, or he would not have flounder-flatted so just and humorous, nor less pleasing than humorous, an image into so profound a nihility. In the name of love and wonder, do not four kisses make a double affirmative? The humour lies in the whispered "No!" and the inviting "Don't!" with which the maiden's kisses are accompanied, and thence compared to negatives, which ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge



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