nihil
Example Sentences
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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
No implication is contained therein that those who have granted the nihil obstat and imprimatur agree with the contents, opinions or statements expressed.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
