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
There is something inherently vulgar about it; perhaps because our train of thought cannot be very entertaining in itself when we are so glad to break in upon it with irrelevant nullities.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
"If prescription can make mere nullities to become good and valid, the laity may be capable of all manner of ecclesiastical power, &c."
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift
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
I have done nothing, aunt," exclaimed Lucy, "and the good are never nullities.
From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade
This world is not governed by abstractions, for abstractions are nullities.
From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson
