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Originally Posted By: idjittsuwm, thanks...you're correct in that he used a word that meant "from or out of nothing" but I don't believe he used a Latin word. I don't know Latin and I wouldn't have appreciated the beauty of the word he did use if it had been foreign (I remember looking it up in the dictionary, it possibly started with a "v").
?? exnihilation (something created out of nothing) *is an English word, derived from Latin ex nihilo.
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