nullity

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

Tetrachordon: expositions upon the foure chief places in Scripture which treat of mariage, or nullities in manage, wherein the doctrine and discipline of divorce, as was lately publish'd, is confirm'd.

From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

Things had all been stark, unreal, barren, mere nullities before.

From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

They are the necessary concomitants of law, without which laws are mere nullities.

From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by B. H. Roberts

The depositions of all who belonged to these two classes were therefore regarded as mere nullities.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

It is the high opinion I have of my countrywomen that has made me cavil, before now, on seeing them turned into elaborately dressed nullities by foolish and too adoring husbands.

From The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory