Tohubohu


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To´hu`bo´hu

    (tō´hŌ-bō´hŌ)
n.1.Chaos; confusion.
Was ever such a tohubohu of people as there assembles?
- Thackeray.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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He built a criminal empire that profited on the meaningless tohubohu beyond the theoretical walls, on beings so flawed, corrupted, and hopeless of redemption that only cosmic courtesy led the Verbovers even to consider them human at all" (99).
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." [47]--that produced the overwhelming sense of being "oppressed by shame." [48] Forty years later, the burden of shame is still evident, expressed now by Levi in relation to Genesis 1:2: "the anguish inscribed in every one of the 'tohubohu' of a deserted and empty universe crushed under the spirit of God but from which the spirit of man is absent: not yet born or already extinguished." [49]
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