nihil

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ)

From Latin nihil, nil.

Nihil admirari, etc.--Horace, Epistles, I. vi. — Pascal's Pensées, Blaise Pascal
Nihil egistis O quot estis, hominum! — Microcosmography: or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters, John Earle
“Nihil sanantibus litteris.” [“Letters which cure nothing.”--Seneca, Ep., 59.] — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne

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