"nihil" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin nihil, nil.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "A nihil dicit."
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        "(countable, law) A nihil dicit."
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        {
          "ref": "1996, David Tibet, “The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)” (lyrics)",
          "text": "I shall no longer believe all the visions of my youth:\nThey have dissolved into nihil."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Arvydas Šliogeris, Names of Nihil, page 13",
          "text": "All tales about the beginning are apt to eliminate the nothing and make being overall. […] Without Nihil the whirlpool of the beginning settles down and becomes a stagnant puddle of pure being. Nihil disappears.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Walter Brueggemann, An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible, page 143",
          "text": "That is, in the sovereign act of creation, whereby YHWH orders chaos, YHWH provisionally defeated the power of the Nihil but did not destroy or eliminate the threat of chaos.",
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        "(uncountable, chiefly philosophy) nothingness, nonbeing"
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      "ipa": "/ˈnɪ.hɪl/"
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      "ipa": "/ˈniː(h)ɪl/"
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      "ipa": "/ˈnaɪ(h)ɪl/"
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      "ipa": "/-əl/"
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      "rhymes": "-aɪəl"
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  "word": "nihil"
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin nihil, nil.",
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        {
          "ref": "1996, David Tibet, “The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)” (lyrics)",
          "text": "I shall no longer believe all the visions of my youth:\nThey have dissolved into nihil."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Arvydas Šliogeris, Names of Nihil, page 13",
          "text": "All tales about the beginning are apt to eliminate the nothing and make being overall. […] Without Nihil the whirlpool of the beginning settles down and becomes a stagnant puddle of pure being. Nihil disappears.",
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        {
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