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

Though he never was a nullifier, his conscience could not permit him to abet in any way the coercion of a sovereign State, as he always believed each one of the United States to be.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

Thoreau, Henry D.: allusion, 22; a Crusoe, 72; "nullifier of civilization," 86; one-apartment house, 142, 143; The Dial, 159, 160; death, 228; Emerson's burial-place, 356; biography, 368; personality traceable, 389; woodcraft, 403.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Saturn reported no evidence of the phenomena, because of the interfering rings and the lack of Mercia's nullifier.

From Raiders of the Universes by Wandrei, Donald A.