emptiness

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The large chestnut trees all abloom and the foliage, in the glory of its tender hue, formed a feathery green and white avenue--emptiness was here too; all of this intertwined magnificence of branch and flower, seen of no one, unfolded itself to the indifferent sky that stretched above it cold and gray.

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  1. The state of being empty; the state of containing nothing, or nothing but air: as, the emptiness of a vessel. The moderation of slepe must be measured by helthe and syckenes, by age, by time, by emptyness or fulnesse of the body, & by naturall complexions. Sir T. Elyot, Castle of Health, ii. His coffers sound With hollow poverty and emptiness. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 3.
  2. Lack of food in the stomach; a state of fasting. Monks, anchorites, and the like, after much emptiness, become melancholy. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 611.
  3. Void space; a vacuum. Nor could another in your room have been, Except an emptiness had come between. Dryden.
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  • When she had disappeared he felt the emptiness that her strange eyes had left in him, and he did not understand why; but the emptiness was there. —  Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
  • Extend your hearts to those of your loved ones military family and the emptiness is not so dark because they do bring a light to you that is a spark of your loved ones spirit. —  Michael Yon - Online Magazine
  • It glittered viciously in emptiness, the plasma-gas necessary for its existence furnishing a medium for radiation. —  The Pirates of Ersatz
  • Stars flamed in emptiness, and planets rotated sedately on their axes. —  The Pirates of Ersatz
  • Are we sensible of our own emptiness, and therefore flying to a Saviour's fulness to obtain grace and strength? —  The Annals of the Poor
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