invalidity
1 Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of invalidity1
From the Medieval Latin word invaliditās, dating back to 1540–50. See invalid 2, -ity
Origin of invalidity2
Example Sentences
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The court has suspended its declaration of invalidity for three years, giving parliament time to amend the current laws to align with its judgement.
From BBC
Young voters typically vote in primaries in vanishingly small numbers, comparable only to the size of the post-80 crowd, whose statistics are decimated by invalidity and death.
From Salon
The appeals court upheld the decision to bar the invalidity arguments because Apple previously could have raised them in its petitions for Patent Office review of the patents.
From Reuters
"A finding of invalidity would terminate the market investigation and leave unaddressed the CMA's concerns about the lack of competition for mobile browsers and cloud gaming," Eadie added.
From Reuters
If the government presses ahead to pay compensation on behalf of the companies, the lawyers would fight to prove its invalidity, he said.
From Reuters
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