make void
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To make void; to annul; to abrogate; applied chiefly and appropriately to establish laws, contracts, rites, customs and institutions; as to abolish laws by a repeal, actual or virtual.
From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Helper, Hinton Rowan
"Annull; to make void, to nullify, to abrogate, to abolish."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
We are justified by faith without the works of the law, and yet we do not make void the law by faith—nay, we establish the law.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.
"But," thou wilt say, "if it is in my power to change my purpose, I shall make void providence, since I shall perchance change something which comes within its foreknowledge."
From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)
To disclose the position of his victim now would have been not only to make void his future plans, but to place his own fate at Solomon's mercy.
From Bred in the Bone by Payn, James
