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
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
The great nullifier perceived at once the insuppressible nature of the Abolition movement and early predicted that the spirit then abroad in the North would not "die away of itself without a shock or convulsion."
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
Thoreau, Henry D.: allusion, 22; a Crusoe, 72; "nullifier of civilization," 86; one-apartment house, 142, 143; The Dial, 159, 160; death, 228; Emerson's burial-place, 356; biography, 368; personality traceable, 389; woodcraft, 403.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
His attitude toward them, his association with the nullifier Presson had suggested that he intended to carry out the usual "let it alone" programme.
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day
