How To Use Nonentity In A Sentence
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What mysterious force or invisible hand guided the embryo's journey from nonentity to individual?
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Schiödte, a Danish entomologist, has, it seems to us, forever settled the question as to whether the louse bites the flesh or sucks blood, and decides a point interesting to physicians, _i. e._, that the loathsome disease called phthiriasis is a nonentity.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
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At strategy sessions of the Bush-Cheney campaign he was a "nonentity," recalled one Bush adviser.
INNER CIRCLE
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In 1789, Robespierre was a political nonentity, and he was also a monarchist.
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“Without the cathedral, Kingsbridge would be nothing, the priory would sink back into obscurity, and Philip would once again be a nonentity, which is what he deserves.”
The Pillars of the Earth
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Loved the bit where the current Foreign Secretary pop-gun parts boycotter to Israel is ignored as a nonentity who will, doubtless, be gone and forgotten after a May election.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The rivers of emancipated men neither disembogue into the ocean of spirit nor evaporate into the abyss of nonentity, but are blended with infinitude as an ontological integer.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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She was once a political nonentity, but has since won a formidable reputation as a determined campaigner.
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Before embarking on a political career in September 1919 at the age of thirty, Adolf Hitler had been a nonentity.
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Joe McElderry – Shuddering nonentity from the north-east.
X Factor Final Betting Odds – Journey South Odds
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It is in fact a negation, which must prësuppose a matter once in being and possible to be denied; it is an abstraction, which cannot happen unless there be somewhat to be taken away; the idea of vacuity must be posterior to that of fullness; the idea of no tree is incompetent to be conceived without the previous idea of _a_ tree; the idea of nonentity suggests, _ex vi termini_, a pre-existent entity; the idea of Nothing, of necessity, prësupposes Something.
Probabilities : An aid to Faith
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To stay at home was to condemn yourself to nonentity.
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His nonentity was a source of regret to us: we lamented to see a tall handsome youth, destined to rule over his fellow-men, trembling at the eight of a horse, and wasting his time in the game of hide-and-seek, or at leap-frog and whose whole information consisted in knowing his prayers, and in saying grace before and after meals.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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He has fallen down and worshipped that miserable 'Ich' of his, and made that, and not God's will, the centre and root of his philosophy, his poetry, and his self-idolizing æsthetics; and when it fails him, then for prussic acid, and nonentity.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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Oh, and I'm such a "nonentity" that this thread is STILL going on, I see.
David Lindsay: New Labour Are Cleaned Up Trots
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He has been brought up to understand that to be a Duke is not to be a titled nonentity or a pampered _roué_, but to be one whom Providence has blessed with an opportunity of benefiting and watching over the welfare of those less fortunate than himself in the world's good gifts.
A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta
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Whereas nowadays the editor of a leading monthly is responsible to his readers for exhaustive views of the politics of Europe during the last fortnight; and would think himself distanced in the race with his lunarian rivals, if his numbers did not contain three distinct and entirely new theories of the system of the universe, and at least one hitherto unobserved piece of evidence of the nonentity of God.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
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His nonentity was a source of regret to us: we lamented to see s tall handsome youth, destined to rule over his fellow-men, trembling at the eight of a horse, and wasting his time in the game of hide-and - seek, or at leap-frog and whose whole information consisted in knowing his prayers, and in saying grace before and after meals.
The Memoirs of Napoleon
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How could such a nonentity become chairman of the company?
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This bumptious bloke is either a nonentity or is likely to be a nuisance - never heard of his name among the boss's acquaintances.
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This collection of essays is saved from nonentity by the stature of the contributors.
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I put above the cold sweat of putting aboard the forehead altitude nonentity-this either the elder brothers returning is actually speed.
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Toler's reason for it was that he was too _constitutional_ to interfere with a jury, Be that as it may, a nonsuit was a nonentity, 'I hope, my Lord,' said counsel in a case actually commanding one, 'your Lordship will, for once, have the courage to nonsuit?
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
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What the rationalist calls nonentity is the substrate and locus of all ideas, having the obstinate reality of matter, the crushing irrationality of existence itself; and one who attempts to override it becomes to that extent an irrelevant rhapsodist, dealing with thin after-images of being.
The Life of Reason
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She was once a political nonentity, but has since won a formidable reputation as a determined campaigner.
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She was once a political nonentity, but has since won a formidable reputation as a determined campaigner.