null and void
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "All retainings by indenture before that date were declared null and void 'other than to be the household servant or officer or of his [the lord's] council for lawful service done or to be done'."
- "[…] on at least a dozen occasions, the Supreme Court itself […] had spent the last three decades scrutinizing and parsing, expanding and restricting and harmonizing and distinguishing a decision that had been null and void all along. Who knew!"
- "The "Cape Malay", a people of whom I had never heard before our arrival, grasped eagerly at the demoralizing doctrine of a plurality of wives, and crowded around the sacred men who could uncurb the bit of sensuality and render null and void the restraining laws of bigamy."