nihil
Britishnoun
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He once wrote, “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.”
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2016
This emergence of subjective feelings from physical stuff appears inconceivable and is at odds with a basic precept of physical thinking, the Ur-conservation law—ex nihilo nihil fit.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 1, 2014
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum: Of the dead say nothing unless it is kind.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2012
Attracted by her plan for saving scarce land and even scarcer money, the city sounded out the Vatican, received an immediate nihil obstat.
From Time Magazine Archive
It happened the other day that the Bishops on one side were crying Placet, while those on the other side expressed their opinion by Non placet, quia nihil intelleximus.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
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