make void

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Do we make void the law through faith?

From A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 by Bates, Joseph

They will continue to do so more and more, if pulpit and press are ignorant or cowardly, and sworn officers of the law make void the law.

From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert)

"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)

Why, really, 'tis yourself, who hope that, by dissembling in this manner, you'll be able to make void this bargain.

From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)

But I can alienate and make void every promise and title, if I will or if I do not care.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason