nihility

• All the conflict of faith and doubt, the distress roused by the idea of nihility, the anger he had felt at the unjust sufferings of mankind, had been swept away by her fresh cool hands. —  The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
• -- Certainly, to give up the algebraic symbol, because A or B is often a cover for ideal nihility, would be unwise. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
• We treat it as a positive nihility, "a barrier from which all our batted balls of being rebound." —  Memories and Studies
• When we reach the latter, we feel an almost irresistible inclination to class it with spirit, or with nihility. —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
• Must _not_ mince the matter, like folks of nihility, —  The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes

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