EGAVE

nullification

About 0.42 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or no legal effect.
  2. noun The nullification crisis in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
  3. noun Surgical removal of genitals (and sometimes nipples) as a form of body modification.

Similar words

disqualification avoidance cassation annulment repeal abrogation revocation deregistration cancellation repealing

Often followed by

of and crisis in or was controversy by is

Word family

nullificationist nullificationists nullifications

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