nullifier

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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

Calhoun directed the nullifier campaign, though he did not throw off all disguises until the summer of the following year.

From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Ogg, Frederic Austin

Upon that speech, Mr. Walker became the Union candidate for Senator of the United States from Mississippi against Mr. Poindexter, a Calhoun nullifier and secessionist.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

But every astronomer who had access to Mercia's nullifier hastened to focus his telescope on the region where extraordinary events were taking place out in the unfathomable gulf of night.

From Raiders of the Universes by Wandrei, Donald A.

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