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‘A void can be formless.’

[⟨det void.n⟩ formless.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The first poem of the Bible concerns the origin of the world – the sweep of creation from formless void to the teeming tangle of animals, vegetables and minerals that make up this wonderful place that we live in.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

My first mosaic isn’t beautiful from an artistic point of view, but somehow all along I felt that God was there with me while I was creating, hovering over the wood and tiles and glue like He hovered over the formless void before speaking the world into existence.
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In the British National Corpus:

Behind him the eastern sky was already brightening, and the wasteland, which had been a formless void of darkness above the lumpy earth, was assuming an identity and a shape.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

(NLT) In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep? (NRSV) Notice the difference?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Just as you formed the oceans and the sky out of Nothing, please pull a base hit for my son out of the formless Void.
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In Wikipedia:

However, the Darkness as “depicted” in the film resembles that found in ancient Egyptian mythology and religion – the state of chaos and formless void that existed before Creation and which constantly threatened existence thereafter.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Rather, this is a story about a deity that is in transition, a deity who was himself once a formless void who creates humanity so that he might know himself.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Genesis, then, begins in media res, with the formless void of early creation already present, and God moving over it.
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In Wikipedia:

After being defeated by the peace – loving Black Lectroids, Whorfin and his band of followers were banished into the formless void of the 8th dimension.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

(NLT) In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He remembers being in the warehouse with Sam, watching the Sluagh come to rest, and he remembers waiting, but he doesn’t remember walking into some formless void.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

To begin, consider the opening verses of the first book of the Bible: “In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The Bible begins with these words: “The earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

O Thou Consuming Eye of everlasting light set as a pearl betwixt the lids of Night and Day; I swear to Thee by the formless void of the Abyss, to lap the galaxies of night in darkness, and blow the meteors like bubbles into the frothing jaws of the sun.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

So he took a dark formless void and filled it with the earth.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

As someone whose felt the call to write since I was about eight years old, I’ve relished words for their ability to bring order, to give structure to the mind palace, to bring meaning to the formless void, but they can be a trap.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

At the most ultimate level, the sages say, beyond even these rivers of thought and feeling and perception and sensation that we mistakenly take to be’ ‘us,’’ lies a formless unconditioned void that contains all energy and all forms.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while the wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You shall always be a star, burning bright in my heavens, shaming lesser satellites with a radiance that is so very uniquely You… never forget that, no matter how you might try to just be another human. “With that, he rose, offered a silent prayer to the formless, cosmic void in which all things arise and all things fade, and died a happy, happy man.
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Queried on 2013-06-20.