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 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
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 William Garrott Brown
The grand assault was finally made in the Senate, under the eye of the great nullifier, who then occupied the chair of the Vice-President, and came in an unexpected way.
From Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge
