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

Their first public display was the celebration of Washington's birthday; but the most intense nullifier could raise no objection to this.

From General Scott by Wright, Marcus Joseph

But every astronomer who had access to Mercia's nullifier hastened to focus his telescope on the region where extraordinary events were taking place out in the unfathomable gulf of night.

From Raiders of the Universes by Wandrei, Donald A.

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

Upon that speech, Mr. Walker became the Union candidate for Senator of the United States from Mississippi against Mr. Poindexter, a Calhoun nullifier and secessionist.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various