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- verb Present participle of
nought .
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Examples
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With this contemplation, there is bound up an exercise which is wayless, that is to say, a noughting of life; for, where we go forth out of ourselves into darkness and the abysmal Waylessness, there shines perpetually the simple ray of the Splendour of God, in which we are grounded, and which draws us out of ourselves into the superessence, and into the immersion of love.
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916
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The other is for comfort in our pain: for He willeth that we perceive that it shall all be turned to worship and profit by virtue of His passion, that we perceive that we suffer not alone but with Him, and see Him to be our Ground, and that we see His pains and His noughting passeth so far all that we may suffer, that it may not be fully thought.
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That same noughting that was shewed in His Passion, it was shewed again here in this Compassion.
chained_bear commented on the word noughting
OED: Noun 1: Depreciation, scorn; effacement, eradication; an instance of this. Also, self-noughting. Noun 2: A worthless or insignificant person. Both obsolete/rare.
February 12, 2008