nullity

By rendering the subpoena a nullity, McElroy left O’Connor nothing to enforce, making his earlier order toothless.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

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

These precautions taken, they looked about them for the men who were nullities by themselves, and yet, engrafted on their party, of whom they could make ministers.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.

Her style also possesses the needful lightness and grace, and she accordingly succeeds admirably in her sketches of high life, with all its elegant nullities and spiritless pomp.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

The usurpations and acts of the rebels were considered not legal acts, but nullities.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

There is something inherently vulgar about it; perhaps because our train of thought cannot be very entertaining in itself when we are so glad to break in upon it with irrelevant nullities.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

They are the necessary concomitants of law, without which laws are mere nullities.

From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by Roberts, B. H.