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
His father, Colonel Whitfield Brooks, was an ardent nullifier, and named his son, John Hampden, in honor of that illustrious English patriot.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
I knew that I was the son of a nullifier, and the nephew of a Union man.
From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
But four years after the death of the great nullifier, his disciples and followers dared to consummate a crime, the consequences of which he shrank from inviting.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
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