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

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

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)

Calhoun directed the nullifier campaign, though he did not throw off all disguises until the summer of the following year.

From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Ogg, Frederic Austin

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 Harper, Ida Husted