nothingless
English
Etymology
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Adjective
nothingless (not comparable)
- (chiefly obsolete) Being nothing; nonexistent.
- 1846, The Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science (page 258)
- The more you reflect upon the simplicity of truth, the closer will you find science connected with it; separate them, and science is a nothingless void.
- 1882, Thomas Bendyshe, The Last Christian (page 42)
- You must believe that with one single breath / There is a Power that can do to death, / Aye! not to death, but absolute nothingness, / The forces of the immeasurable abyss, / And light, and heat, and motion make succumb / To nothing, in a nothingless vacuum; […]
- 1999, James H. Austin, Zen and the Brain (page 572)
- It was also a nothingless abyss about which nothing could ever be known.
- 1846, The Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science (page 258)