nullity

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

So what we're going to do is we're going to say, "That was a nullity, it never happened, we are nullifying her actions and . . ."

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

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

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

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 Various (magazine) Harper

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 H. T. Ryde

I have done nothing, aunt," exclaimed Lucy, "and the good are never nullities.

From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade

Under such circumstances, and, doubtless, stung by the ungraciousness of the treatment he had received, he directed that the commissions should neither be recorded nor delivered, but treated as nullities.

From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren