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

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

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.

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 Grimké, Archibald Henry

The great nullifier perceived at once the insuppressible nature of the Abolition movement and early predicted that the spirit then abroad in the North would not "die away of itself without a shock or convulsion."

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry