[f. ANNUL + -MENT; prob. a. Fr. anullement, though neither Littré nor Godef. has the latter in 15th c.]

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  1.  The action of reducing to nothing or putting an end to; abolition.

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1491.  Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W.), III. xxiv. (1495), 325/2. Of humylyte procedeth mortyfycacyon, and anullement of his propre wyll.

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1809.  Coleridge, Friend, VI. v. (1867), 308. No better remedy for the overweening self-complacency of modern philosophy than the annulment of its pretended originality.

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1862.  F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 32. Emancipation … the annulment of the last subsisting misery.

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  2.  The action of declaring void; invalidation.

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1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., 107. Most impudent Annulments of the plain and express Laws and Doctrines of Christ.

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1816.  Edin. Rev., XXVII. 318. A letter meant as a revocation and annulment of that rescript.

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1865.  Daily Tel., 23 Aug., 6/4 Hence the necessary annulment of the Richmond elections.

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