nothing

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Yet this deepened pleasure told him nothing--nothing, at any rate, of what the gods had up their sleeves They were standing, as they had often stood before, on some high ridge of the desert cliff which overlooked its desolation and immensity.

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  1. pronoun No thing; not anything: The box contained nothing. I've heard nothing about it.
  2. pronoun No part; no portion: Nothing remains of the old house but the cellar hole.
  3. pronoun One of no consequence, significance, or interest: The new nonsmoking policy is nothing to me.

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  • Yet this deepened pleasure told him nothing--nothing, at any rate, of what the gods had up their sleeves They were standing, as they had often stood before, on some high ridge of the desert cliff which overlooked its desolation and immensity. —  There was a King in Egypt
  • It was his instinct to say at once he would take her You've seen nothing--nothing," he said to her But if Naples is so lovely, how could you leave it?" —  The Lost Girl
  • A cloak of many colors, without warmth, without protection: and now, as he walked along, his heart literally froze in his bosom, as he confessed to himself that he had as yet done nothing--nothing which could give him a feeling of real satisfaction. —  Christian Gellert's Last Christmas From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation
  • Being lazy, and having nothing to do, he did nothing-- nothing, that is, in the way of work. —  Post Haste
  • They were steeped in ignorance; they knew nothing--nothing which it could profit them to know. —  What Is Man? and Other Essays
 

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something ·  none ·  anything ·  kind ·  matter ·  life ·  fact ·  story ·  place

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nothing:   nothings
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  1. Middle English, from Old English nāthing : , no; see no2 + thing, thing; see thing.

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  1. from Middle English no thing, na thing, from Anglo-Saxon nān thing, no thing: see none, no, and thing.
  2. from Middle English nothing, nothinge; properly accusative or instrumental of nothing, n.
 

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