nullity
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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
Ecuador’s justice system formally notified the Australian of the nullity of his naturalization in a letter that came in response to a claim filed by the South American country’s Foreign Ministry.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
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
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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
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
For he held that it had from the beginning been an unlawful assembly, that all its resolutions were nullities, and that the Sovereigns whom it had set up were usurpers.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Compton had been suspended by a decree of the High Commission, and the decrees of the High Commission were universally acknowledged to be nullities.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
They themselves tell you that they are nullities.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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