| 单词 | nullification |
| 释义 | nullification (once / 9456 pages) n Nullification is the act of cancelling something. Counteracting the effects of a snakebite with an antidote could be described as nullification, for example. Use the noun nullification when one thing overcomes or overrides another, basically erasing the effects of the first thing. Nullification of a newly passed law would occur if the law turned out to be impossible to enforce. The word is most often used in a political sense, in fact, and was first used this way by Thomas Jefferson in 1798. The Latin root is nullificationem, "a making as nothing," from nullus, "not any." WORD FAMILYnullification: nullifications+/nullifier: nullifiers/nullify: nullification, nullified, nullifier, nullifies, nullifying USAGE EXAMPLESState firearm nullification laws, or firearms freedom acts as they are sometimes called, have been signed into law in nine states. Seattle Times(Nov 21, 2016) Before the Civil War, threats of nullification and secession were not limited to the slave states. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) Where you have that, the only recourse is jury nullification, such as was engineered in the OJ trial. New York Times(Aug 23, 2016) 1n the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something Syn|Hypo|Hyper override cancellation the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement vitiationnullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null counteraction, neutralisation, neutralizationaction intended to nullify the effects of some previous action neutralisation, neutralizationaction intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war abrogation, annulment, repealthe act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation write-offthe act of cancelling from an account a bad debt or a worthless asset attainder, civil deathcancellation of civil rights recission, rescission(law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made change of state the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics 2n the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress Hyper states' rights a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states |
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