vacuity

• In time the vacuity is filled with something else; or sometimes the vacuity closes up of itself Mr. Seward and Mr. Pearson, another clergyman here, supt with us at our inn, and after they left us, we sat up late as we used to do in London. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2
• The apparatus of Control -- the "State" -- must (or so we must assume) continue to deliquesce and petrify simultaneously, must progress on its present course in which hysterical rigidity comes more and more to mask a vacuity, an abyss of power. —  home
• The silence, rare in cable debates, spoke volumes for the vacuity of his position. —  Veterans Today - News for U.S. Military Veterans Jobs, VA Benefits, Home Loans, Hospitals & Administration
• Mere vacuity, the first agent, God, the first instrument of God, nature, will not admit; nothing can be utterly empty, but so near a degree towards vacuity as solitude, to be but one, they love not. —  Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
• But the darkness is in my ain een," she said, sinking back, after an earnest gaze upon vacuity--"it's a' ended now Pass breath Come death And, sinking back upon her couch of straw, she expired without a groan III A VISION OF ROB ROY[9 When, however, I recollected the circumstances in which we formerly met, I could not doubt that the billet was most probably designed for him. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III

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