Careful Words

null (n.)

null (adj.)

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Maud. Part i. ii.

There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before;

The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;

What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more;

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): Abt Vogler. ix.