Lexic.us

Definition of Nullifier

1. Noun. An advocate of nullification; someone who believes that a state can resist federal laws.

2. Noun. An official who can invalidate or nullify. "My bank check was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was"

Definition of Nullifier

1. n. One who nullifies or makes void; one who maintains the right to nullify a contract by one of the parties.

Definition of Nullifier

1. Noun. One who, or that which, nullifies. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nullifier

1. one that nullifies [n -S] - See also: nullifies

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nullifier

nullar nullary nullary sum nullary sums nullas nulled nullhomotopic nullibiety nullibiquitous nullifiable

nullification nullifications nullifidian nullifidians nullified nullifier (current term) nullifiers nullifies nullify nullifying

nullifyingly nulligravida nulligravidae nulligravidas nulling nullings nullipara nulliparae nulliparas nulliparity

Literary usage of Nullifier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Right and Duty of Prohibition: Argument Before a Joint Special Committee of by Alonzo Ames Miner (1867)
"... Massachusetts criminal law, with standing in the attitude of an arrant nullifier, as much so as South Carolina herself touching the United States law. ..."

2. Makers of the Nation by Fanny E. Coe (1914)
"JOHN C. CALHOUN, THE GREAT nullifier t "From 1830 to the day of his death, Calhoun may be called the very impersonation of the slavery question. ..."

3. The Life and Times of C. G. Memminger by Henry Dickson Capers, South Carolina Governor, 1834-1836 (George McDuffie), Union State Rights Party South Carolina (1893)
"them, and they began to turn their eyes upon Robert the nullifier, ... Then Robert the nullifier stood forth and said, " Of a surety O men of Charleston, ..."

4. A Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise: With a History of the Political ...by James Pinkney Hambleton by James Pinkney Hambleton (1856)
"Mr. Wise asked, " If you are no nullifier OH the Eastern Shore, where they are opposed to it, and a nullifier at home, where they are in favor of it, ..."

5. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster (1890)
"For one, certainly, I am willing to say that I believe him a very honest and a very sincere nullifier, using the term in the same sense in which he used it ..."

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