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Definition of Out of nothing
1. Adverb. Without warning. "Your cousin arrived out of thin air"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Out Of Nothing
Literary usage of Out of nothing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach (1881)
"The culminating point of the principle of subjectivity is creation out of
nothing.* As the eternity of the world or of matter imports nothing further than ..."
2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"If the material is not mentioned, while the work and the maker of the work are
both mentioned, it is manifest that He made the work out of nothing. ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"According to this account the primary creation is simply the creation of the
first matter out of nothing. The creation of plants and animals is afterwards ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"So that God could not create any new entity out of nothing, but only make things
out of pre-existing unmade matter, as a carpenter doth a house, ..."
5. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"But you will say, Is it not impossible to admit of the making anything out of
nothing, since we cannot possibly conceive itl I answer, No2. ..."
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