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Meanings of set at nought in English

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Usage of set at nought in English
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But I fear to set at nought the righteous judgment of Zeus.
The Argonautica
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Why should we tarry any longer to see everything moiled and set at nought?
The Armourer's Prentices
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A shock from a thunderbolt, and behold, all human foresight is set at nought!
The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, ...
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Why didst thou set at nought the words of God, for the sake of Mr.
The Pilgrim's Progress in Words of One Syllable
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He took sabbatarianism as a type of the things that should be set at nought.
De Profundis
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Doubtless, it would be wholly set at nought, if we had presumed to be infallible.
The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps
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But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
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And they set at nought the desirable land.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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He is despised and set at nought still.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
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Human labour was wasted-humanlife set at nought.
The Last Man
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Thou hast set at nought all my counsels.'
Woman and Her Saviour in Persia / By a Returned Missionary
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Why do you set at nought your brother?
What Necessity Knows
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He felt himself set at nought; felt death itself despised, as if in despite of the inflictor.
Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volum...
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And although this constitution was violated and set at nought by Norman force, yet force cannot change right.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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But the idea that that means the whole of the British-American relationship should be set at nought is absurd.
The Guardian
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And it is also written that the Son of man must suffer many things and be set at nought.
The Gospel of Mark for Readers
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