It is a Pantheism which annihilates the world; matter and nature are completely absorbed by the world-soul, are plunged and buried in it; the soul of a man is a being only apparently separated from the world-soul.
Only when black punishment with red eyes annihilates the transgressors, do men feel no anxiety.
The rebellion annihilates the State rights, and all special constitutions guaranteed by the Union, and at the same time annihilates the relation of the Africo-American to the specific States or constitutions.
The general departure of all men from the law exterminates people immediately; the departure from it of all women annihilates it in the succeeding generation.
Tyrants detest and oppress truth, because it dares to dispute their unjust and, chimerical titles; it is opposed by the priesthood because it annihilates their superstitions.
Although this religion preaches love and peace, it soon annihilatesthe effects of those precepts by the divisions which it necessarily sows among its sectaries, who unavoidably interpret diversely the ambiguous oracles announced in Holy Writ.
But this suppositionannihilates the unity of the absolute, or it annihilates itself.
A navy can injure commerce, but cannot afford it protection, unless it annihilates the naval force of the adverse nation.
This he must tend and strengthen in himself, while he keeps the harmful side at a distance, struggles against and annihilates it so far as possible both in himself and all around him.
Standing on the field of battle Mithra annihilates the ranks; the wings quake, and he makes the centre to tremble.
Verethraghna brings the ranks together in battle; he destroys the ranks, and annihilates them.
The existence of the Venetian republic under the Gothic kingdom of Italy, is attested by the same authentic record, which annihilates their lofty claim of original and perpetual independence.
The strange novelty of the event, which excites our distrust, must have attracted their notice; and their universal silence annihilates the vain tradition of the succeeding age.
This consideration annihilates at once the principal objects of that mysterious and crooked policy which has hitherto occupied the attention of governments.
Christianity in its true significance abolishes the State,"[982] annihilates all government.
Tapestry shows its threads as part of its beauty: a picture annihilates its canvas: it shows nothing of it.
But this supposition annihilates the unity of the Absolute.
Prayer, therefore, logically annihilates the being to whom it is addressed.
Tapestry shows its threads as part of its beauty: a pictureannihilates its canvas; it shows nothing of it.
Carried to its logical conclusion, it annihilates revealed religion.
A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.
A pure emotion deprives him of personality and annihilates the self in him.
This old nerveless man, with his pen, annihilates three thousand soldiers (his hands sink down).
A word from thee annihilates the traitor That falsely claims the title of thy son.
The common opinion is, that intense combustion actually destroys or annihilates matter, because it is thereby dissipated.
But chemistry informs us, that no case of combustion, how fiercely soever the fire may rage, annihilates the least particle of matter; and that fire only changes the form of substances.
But the chemist knows that not one particle of matter has ever been thus deprived of existence; that fire only changes the form of matter, but never annihilates it.
Here they first strikingly realized the transparency and purity of the mountain air, which to the eye quite annihilates distance.
Even if only for a brief space, he annihilatesthe higher element and gives himself up to the pleasure of the base and degraded.
Schopenhauer's hero puts the purport of love not in the actual individual, but in a conception, and annihilates the value of the individual and the unique.
This question annihilates legislation, sets at nought the wisdom of the House, and expunges the minority.
It was reserved for our own day, and our own country to make the improvement which annihilates distance, which disregards weather and darkness, and which rivals the tongue and the pen in the precision and infinitude of its messages.
You will admit that it utterly annihilates the liberty of its victims:--but another of the avowed objects of the Constitution is to "secure the blessings of liberty.
Congress not only impairs but annihilates the right of private property, while it withholds from the slaves of the District their title to themselves.
If to petition for the exercise of a power that is not, creates it--to petition against the exercise of a power that is, annihilates it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "annihilates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
