Suppoſe they be in number infinit, Yet beingvoyd of Martiall diſcipline, All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles:[…] Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.
2022 September 21, Martin Pollard, Ben Blanchard, “China willing to make utmost effort for peaceful 'reunification' with Taiwan”, in Michael Perry, editor,Reuters[1], archived fromthe original on21 September 2022, Asia Pacific[2]:
Taiwan's government says that as the island has never been ruled by the People's Republic of China, its sovereignty claims arevoid.
Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
1728,Alexander Pope, “Book II”, inThe Dunciad; republished inThe Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company,1902,page231:
And senseless words she gave, and sounding strain, / But senseless, lifeless! idolvoid and vain!
Nobody has crossed thevoid since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
1711,Alexander Pope, “Part II”, inAn Essay on Criticism, lines9–10; republished inThe Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company,1902,page70:
Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mightyvoid of Sense.
2022 December 14, Paul Stephen, “HS2'sDorothy starts to dig second tunnel bore”, inRAIL, number972, page23:
From the logistics hub, the spoil will be taken by rail to Barrington in Cambridgeshire, Cliffe in Kent, and Rugby in Warwickshire. It will be used to fillvoids at these locations which will then be used for housing developments.
2025 February 5, “Network News: "Largevoid" caused by damaged pipe led to Class 195 derailment”, inRAIL, number1028, page18:
A hiddenvoid caused by a partially buried pipe being damaged by a tamper during routine maintenance led to the derailment of a passenger train.[…] The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) reported that a "largevoid" was found in the embankment, but had remained hidden until the train travelled over it.
It was become a practice[…]tovoid the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
a.1716 (date written),[Gilbert] Burnet, edited by[Gilbert Burnet Jr.],Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London:[…] Thomas Ward[…], published1724,→OCLC:
after they hadvoided the obligation of the oath he had taken
BY than come in to the feld kynge Ban as fyers as a lyon[…]/ Ha a said kyng Lot we must be discomfyte / for yonder I see the moste valyaunt knyght of the world / and the man of the most renoume / for suche ij bretheren as is kyng Ban & kyng bors ar not lyuynge / wherfore we must nedesvoyde or deye
2011, Thomas Penn,Winter King, Penguin, published2012, page68:
Late on the final evening, as the customary ‘void’ – spiced wine and sweetmeats – was served, more elaborate disguisings in the great hall culminated in the release of a flock of white doves.
