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
These historical characters are not mere shadows, puppets, or nullities, but very real men and women, our own flesh and blood.
From Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
They are the necessary concomitants of law, without which laws are mere nullities.
From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by B. H. Roberts
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
Things had all been stark, unreal, barren, mere nullities before.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
