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nullified

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nul·li·fy  (nl-f)
tr.v. nul·li·fied, nul·li·fy·ing, nul·li·fies
1. To make null; invalidate.
2. To counteract the force or effectiveness of.
[Latin nllificre, to despise : nllus, none; see ne in Indo-European roots + -ficre, -fy.]
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Adj.1.nullified - deprived of legal force
invalidated
invalid - having no cogency or legal force; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license"
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However he had nullified the force of the enchantment by prayer, and had killed my thirteen knights in a three hours' battle, and taken me prisoner, sparing my life in order that so strange a curiosity as I was might be exhibited to the wonder and admiration of the king and the court.
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If many of the demands of life in the monastery, which was near the capital and much frequented, did not please him and were temptations to him, they were all nullified by obedience: 'It is not for me to reason; my business is to do the task set me, whether it be standing beside the relics, singing in the choir, or making up accounts in the monastery guest-house.
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