nullity
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In death, the law renders him a legal nullity.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2025
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
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
There is something inherently vulgar about it; perhaps because our train of thought cannot be very entertaining in itself when we are so glad to break in upon it with irrelevant nullities.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
Among these energetic nullities we see gradually rising a young monster—with face handsome and tranquil—Saint-Just!
From Studies in Literature by Morley, John
They themselves tell you that they are nullities.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
They are the necessary concomitants of law, without which laws are mere nullities.
From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by Roberts, B. H.
Under such circumstances, and, doubtless, stung by the ungraciousness of the treatment he had received, he directed that the commissions should neither be recorded nor delivered, but treated as nullities.
From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Van Buren, Martin
