nullify
verb (used with object)
to render or declare legally void or inoperative.
nullifier
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a word derived from
nullify.
Example Sentences
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No amount of memories, mutual love or money owed should obscure the clarity of dire results: Twenty straight losses are the ultimate nullifier.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
The grand assault was finally made in the Senate, under the eye of the great nullifier, who then occupied the chair of the Vice-President, and came in an unexpected way.
From Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge
Saturn reported no evidence of the phenomena, because of the interfering rings and the lack of Mercia's nullifier.
From Raiders of the Universes by Donald A. Wandrei
I knew that I was the son of a nullifier, and the nephew of a Union man.
From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve
In the list one notes with interest the names of General Thomas Cadwalader of Philadelphia, salaried lobbyist for the United States Bank, and Senator Robert Y. Hayne, the future South Carolina nullifier.
From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Frederic Austin Ogg
