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

Their first public display was the celebration of Washington's birthday; but the most intense nullifier could raise no objection to this.

From General Scott by Wright, Marcus Joseph

I knew that I was the son of a nullifier, and the nephew of a Union man.

From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau)

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 Dickert, D. Augustus

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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell