Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VOID, a. [Fr. vuide; It. voto; L. viduus; Sw. öde; G. and Dan. öde, waste, which seems to be the Eng. wide; so waste and vast are from one root. It coincides with Gr. ιδιος, and the root of L. dividο, Ar. بَدَّ badda, to separate. Class Bd, No. 1. See also No. 48.]

1. Empty; vacant; not occupied with any visible matter; as, a void space or place. – 1 Kings xxii.
2. Empty; without inhabitants or furniture. – Gen. i.
3. Having no legal or binding force; null; not effectual to bind parties, or to convey or support a right; not sufficient to produce its effect. Thus a deed not duly signed and sealed, is void. A fraudulent contract is void, or may be rendered void. My word shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. Is. lv. I wilt make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. – Jer. xix.
4. Free; clear; as, a conscience void of offence. – Acts xxiv.
5. Destitute; as, void of learning; void of reason or common sense. He that is void of wisdom, despiseth his neighbor. – Prov. xi.
6. Unsupplied; vacant; unoccupied; having no incumbent. Divers offices that had been long void. – Camden.
7. Unsubstantial; vain. Lifeless idol, void and vain. – Pope. Void space, in physics, a vacuum. To make void, to violate; to transgress. They have made void thy law. – Ps. cxix. #2. To render useless or of no effect. – Rom. iv.