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nullity

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nul·li·ty  (nl-t)
n. pl. nul·li·ties
1. The state or quality of being null.
2. Something that is null, especially an act having no legal validity.
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Noun1.nullity - the state of nonexistence
nihility, nothingness, void
nonentity, nonexistence - the state of not existing
thin air - nowhere to be found in a giant void; "it vanished into thin air"
2.nullity - something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)
act, enactment - a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
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Pullet's character was not of that entire nullity which might otherwise have been attributed to it.
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Our impulses, our spiritual activities, no more adjust themselves to the idea of their future nullity, than the beating of our heart, or the irritability of our muscles.
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