Nought

//nɔːt//

"Nought" in a Sentence (11 examples)

I teach kids from nought to five years old.

It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care nought about it.

Thus Venus spake, and thus fair Venus' son replies: / "Nought of thy sisters have I heard or seen. / What name, O maiden, shall I give to thee, / for mortal never had thy voice or mien? / O Goddess surely, whether Nymph I see, / or Phoebus' sister."

We are nought but creatures of our master's will.

"It is the truth; naught have I hidden from thee, Kallikrates."

0.335 cm is nought/zero point three three five of a centimeter.

It is nought, it is nought, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

In this naked word sin, our Lord brought to my mind, generally, all that is not good, and the shameful despite and the utter noughting that He bare for us in this life, and His dying; and all the pains and passions of all His creatures, ghostly and bodily; (for we be all partly noughted, and we shall be noughted following our Master, Jesus, till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully noughted of our deadly flesh and of all our inward affections which are not very good;)

The nought which is you has devoured the style and been sustained for a while as a non-you until the style is emptied out by the noughting self.

Your usefulness is zero, your worth zero, and as zero you deserve to be treated as nothing, and in the extreme, noughted.

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What is the use of noughting yourself? Who is noughting who? What is the use of searching for yourself? Who is searching for who? There are not two of you ! You cannot find yourself, or the absence of yourself.

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