nullifier
Example Sentences
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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
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 Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve
The great nullifier perceived at once the insuppressible nature of the Abolition movement and early predicted that the spirit then abroad in the North would not "die away of itself without a shock or convulsion."
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
In the list one notes with interest the names of General Thomas Cadwalader of Philadelphia, salaried lobbyist for the United States Bank, and Senator Robert Y. Hayne, the future South Carolina nullifier.
From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Frederic Austin Ogg
