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
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
But I leave the glory of photographing nullities to the geniuses of the age, and run to the first words which could, without impiety, be called dialogue.
From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
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
Among these energetic nullities we see gradually rising a young monster—with face handsome and tranquil—Saint-Just!
From Studies in Literature by John Morley
It is the high opinion I have of my countrywomen that has made me cavil, before now, on seeing them turned into elaborately dressed nullities by foolish and too adoring husbands.
From The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory
In this point of view they are considered, at least in this country, as mere nullities.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
