nullity
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In death, the law renders him a legal nullity.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2025
In the process of conversion, however, she’s reduced to a nullity with a grating personal manner.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
But although what she could do is say, "OK, well if you said that me dropping the charges were a nullity, I'm just going to drop them again."
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
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
Expositions upon the foure chief places in Scripture, which treat of Marriage, or nullities in Marriage.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David
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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
Minister Adams was better received than most nullities because he made no noise.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry
Never forget," said he in an address to the Assembly, "that laws are mere nullities without the necessary force to sustain them.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)
The national sales, not having been confirmed by Act of Parliament, were regarded by the tribunals as nullities.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
