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voyd

voyd is the obsolete spelling of void.

Meaning of void

Adjective

void (not comparable)

  1. Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
    • Today's youth's brains are sucked void of common sense.
  2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
    • divers great offices that had been long void1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC
  3. (with-of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
    • Suppoſe they be in number infinit,
      Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline,
      All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: […]
      Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats
      And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    bereft of, destitute of, absent, awanting, deficient of, deprived of, devoid of, lacking, leer, poor in
  4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
    • [My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 55:11
  5. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
    • null and void
  6. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
    • And senseless words she gave, and sounding strain, / But senseless, lifeless! idol void and vain!1728, Alexander Pope, “Book II”, in The Dunciad; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 231

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Forms of voyd

Adjective
comparativemore voyd
superlativemost voyd
Noun
pluralvoyds
Verb
third-person singular presentvoyds
present participlevoyding
past participlevoyded
pastvoyded

Questions about voyd

What is voyd the obsolete spelling of?
Voyd is the obsolete spelling of void.

Words near voyd in the dictionary

  1. voyagings
  2. voyce
  3. voyced
  4. voyces
  5. voycing
  6. voyd
  7. voyde
  8. voyded
  9. voyder
  10. voyders
  11. voyding

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