nullifier
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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
But four years after the death of the great nullifier, his disciples and followers dared to consummate a crime, the consequences of which he shrank from inviting.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
The very Federalists who fought him in that day and denounced him as a traitor and nullifier lived to proclaim and practice doctrines of nullification in behalf of State's rights during the War of 1812.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Ida Husted Harper
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
Thoreau, Henry D.: allusion, 22; a Crusoe, 72; "nullifier of civilization," 86; one-apartment house, 142, 143; The Dial, 159, 160; death, 228; Emerson's burial-place, 356; biography, 368; personality traceable, 389; woodcraft, 403.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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