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Void   /vɔɪd/   Listen
noun
Void  n.  An empty space; a vacuum. "Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense, And fills up all the mighty void of sense."


adjective
Void  adj.  
1.
Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled. "The earth was without form, and void." "I 'll get me to a place more void." "I 'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, I may run over the story of his country."
2.
Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices and the like. "Divers great offices that had been long void."
3.
Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use. "A conscience void of offense toward God." "He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor."
4.
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain. "(My word) shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please." "I will make void the counsel of Judah."
5.
Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul. "Idol, void and vain."
6.
(Law) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
Void space (Physics), a vacuum.
Synonyms: Empty; vacant; devoid; wanting; unfurnished; unsupplied; unoccupied.


verb
Void  v. t.  (past & past part. voided; pres. part. voiding)  
1.
To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table. "Void anon her place." "If they will fight with us, bid them come down, Or void the field."
2.
To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements. "A watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices." "With shovel, like a fury, voided out The earth and scattered bones."
3.
To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify. "After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken." "It was become a practice... to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed."


Void  v. i.  To be emitted or evacuated.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Void" Quotes from Famous Books



... subjected to invariable natural laws, the precise discovery of which, and their reduction to the least possible number, is the end of all our efforts; while we regard the investigation of what are called causes, whether first or final, as absolutely inaccessible and void of sense for us." ... "We have no pretension to expound the producing causes of the phenomena, for in that we can never do more than push back the difficulty; we seek only to analyze with exactitude the circumstances of ...
— Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws • James Buchanan
... so, but a gracious soul that is reconciled With God in Christ, and hath the spirit of grace dwelling in it, may suppose itself a stranger yet unto this reconciliation, and void of the grace of God, and so be still in the ...
— Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life • John Brown (of Wamphray)
... passages which have been quoted in this sketch will prove the justness of this criticism. As a speaker and writer, his principal need was condensation. He could not bear that anything should remain untold. He was deficient in taste, but he had fervour of feeling, and was by no means void of imagination. ...
— Lord George Bentinck - A Political Biography • Benjamin Disraeli
... one involuntary step as a blast of icy wind drove stinging snow into his face. Then, without a word, he gave Spud O'Malley a joyous grin and threw himself out into the void.... ...
— The Finding of Haldgren • Charles Willard Diffin
... girl of Les Artaud. Like the others of her class, she was void of any religious feeling, and when she came to decorate the church for the festival of the Virgin, she engaged in all sorts of irreverent pranks. La Faute de ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson


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