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nullity

[nuhl-i-tee] / ˈnʌl ɪ ti /


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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

Her style also possesses the needful lightness and grace, and she accordingly succeeds admirably in her sketches of high life, with all its elegant nullities and spiritless pomp.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

The usurpations and acts of the rebels were considered not legal acts, but nullities.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

The parliament of Toulouse, considering the edicts as nullities, went on with their business.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

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

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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