Lexicographical Neighbors of Nihilities
Literary usage of Nihilities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"... demolishes dandies, and depopulates the whole tribe of speckle-faced nihilities.
It gives decent men a chance, and consigns to their merited oblivion ..."
2. The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Fletcher Webster, Edwin David Sanborn (1857)
"I have, no expectation of redeeming by this letter the vacuity and nothingness
of the last I wrote you, which, when nihilities shall all be collected and ..."
3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1895)
"To the stern monotheist, for whom there can be one and one only God and all beside
are nihilities, to him the plurality cannot abide in the Unity, ..."
4. The Six Days of Creation: Or, The Scriptural Cosmology, with the Ancient by Tayler Lewis (1855)
"But the whole aspect of the passage shows that these unseen, or unap- j,earing
things are not spoken of as nihilities, for which the proper term would be ..."
5. The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health (1840)
"That such abstractions (I was near saying nihilities) as substance, essence, and
entity, were dreamed of and dozed on in the cloisters of the fifteenth and ..."
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