Definition of Out of nothing

1. Adverb. Without warning. "Your cousin arrived out of thin air"

Exact synonyms: From Nowhere, Out Of Thin Air

Lexicographical Neighbors of Out Of Nothing

out of control
out of date
out of doors
out of fashion
out of fix
out of focus
out of gas
out of gear(p)
out of hand
out of house and home
out of it
out of joint
out of kilter
out of line
out of luck
out of nothing (current term)
out of nowhere
out of one's depth
out of one's face
out of one's head
out of one's league
out of one's mind
out of one's sight
out of one's skull
out of one's system
out of one's way
out of order
out of phase
out of place
out of place(p)

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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