noun
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the state of being null
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a null or legally invalid act or instrument
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something null, ineffective, characterless, etc
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Etymology
Origin of nullity
From the Medieval Latin word nūllitās, dating back to 1560–70. See null, -ity
Example Sentences
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In the process of conversion, however, she’s reduced to a nullity with a grating personal manner.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
So what we're going to do is we're going to say, "That was a nullity, it never happened, we are nullifying her actions and . . ."
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023
A city that could imagine its own improbable existence into reality could just as easily relegate this now-inconvenient natural feature into a nullity or a comedian’s gag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
Ecuador’s justice system formally notified the Australian of the nullity of his naturalization in a letter that came in response to a claim filed by the South American country’s Foreign Ministry.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
The agreeable nullity of Leon’s life was a polished artifact, its ease deceptive, its limitations achieved by invisible hard work and the accidents of character, none of which she could hope to rival.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
The usurpations and acts of the rebels were considered not legal acts, but nullities.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
I have done nothing, aunt," exclaimed Lucy, "and the good are never nullities.
From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade
Expositions upon the foure chief places in Scripture, which treat of Marriage, or nullities in Marriage.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
Moreover, Jefferson entertained the belief that all appointments made by Adams after the results of the election were known were nullities, on the theory that a retiring President might not bind his successor.
From Union and Democracy by Allen Johnson
Compton had been suspended by a decree of the High Commission, and the decrees of the High Commission were universally acknowledged to be nullities.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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