Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To annul or cancel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make void; annul; deprive of force or authority; cancel.
- To deprive (of).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
annul , do away with; tocancel .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sometimes disingenuous is used as a synonym for naive, as if the dis - prefix functioned as an intensive (as it does in certain words like disannul) rather than as a negative element.
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These things do mitigate or disannul that which hath been said of melancholy meats, and make it more tolerable; but to such as are wealthy, live plenteously, at ease, may take their choice, and refrain if they will, these viands are to be forborne, if they be inclined to, or suspect melancholy, as they tender their healths:
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In secundis meditare, quo pacto feras adversa: or out of mature judgment to avoid the effect, or disannul the cause, as they do that are troubled with toothache, pull them quite out.
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For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
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And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
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And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
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For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
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[K. Philip and Queene Mary hereby do disannul Pope Alexanders diuision. 177].
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
Isaiah 14. 1999
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And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, Ex. 12.40 cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Galatians 3. 1999
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