nullifier

Example Sentences

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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

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 Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau)

Without Mercia's nullifier, the stars were not visible to ordinary eyes, since the light-rays would take years to reach the Earth.

From Raiders of the Universes by Wandrei, Donald A.

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 Dickert, D. Augustus

The estrangement begun over Peggy Eaton widened into a breach between a State and the United States, between the nullifier of the laws and the defender of the Union.

From Andrew Jackson by Brown, William Garrott