Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- So as to be invalid; without validity.
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- adverb In an
invalid manner; withoutvalidity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Either that was a real session and therefore his recess appointments are unconstitutional or the bill was invalidly enacted and therefore unconstitutional.
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After all, if Georgia had taken property under the authority of an invalid law, it would have to return the property to its owner; the same principle applied when the state invalidly deprived Worcester of his "personal liberty."
Excerpts: 'Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View' Stephen Breyer 2010
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This means a person without this laying on of hands, if he carried out the ministry of one on whom hands had been laid, would be acting invalidly.
A Response to Mir 2007
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The pastoral practice employed to persuade the invalidly married couple to conform their lives to the moral law may therefore be different than that employed to persuade the couple in obvious concubinage to do so.
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You may have heard of the recent contretemps in Australia, where Fr Kennedy of St Mary's, South Brisbane, had been invalidly baptizing for years; he has recently been removed from the parish, and, having set up his own Mass centre "in exile", has just been suspended as a priest.
Error, Heresy, & You 2009
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This means a person without this laying on of hands, if he carried out the ministry of one on whom hands had been laid, would be acting invalidly.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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The pastoral practice employed to persuade the invalidly married couple to conform their lives to the moral law may therefore be different than that employed to persuade the couple in obvious concubinage to do so.
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Perhaps the problem here is that “ad hominem” is too often simply used to mean “saying anything critical about the person involved”, rather than “invalidly arguing that their character makes them wrong in itself”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew Sullivan on Human Rights Watch–Ignorance is Bliss 2009
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He enjoys no canonical faculties, so he is illicitly, not invalidly, exercising the powers of his ordination.
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There is a myth that a large number of patents are invalidly granted.
Revisiting the Presumption of Validity Peter Zura 2009
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