nullifier

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

Without Mercia's nullifier, the stars were not visible to ordinary eyes, since the light-rays would take years to reach the Earth.

From Raiders of the Universes by Wandrei, Donald A.

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 Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau)

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 Grimké, Archibald Henry

The very Federalists who fought him in that day and denounced him as a traitor and nullifier lived to proclaim and practice doctrines of nullification in behalf of State's rights during the War of 1812.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted