nullity

• Do not write one word in answer to me—the name of such a miserable nullity, and husk of a man, ought not to have a place in your letters—and that way he would get near to me again; near indeed this time!—So tell me, in a word—or do not tell me. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 1845-1846
• It is 'a legal nullity, and a court has no discretion in determining whether it should be set aside. ' —  To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News
• I do not understand that my associates consider it a nullity--certainly they could not have so considered it when it was passed. —  A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
• On Smiggers' right is a "doddering" old fellow of between seventy and eighty--clearly a "nullity"--on his left, another member nearly as old, but with a glimmer of intelligence. —  Pickwickian Studies
• In particular, he criticised the conduct of ministers with regard to Burke's economical plan of reform, which, he said, they were reducing to a nullity--to a thing naked and shorn, and useless to the country; and he expressed a hope that the people of England would resent the insults they had received from men who added mockery and contempt to oppression and neglect. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria

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