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Annulment

//əˈnʌl.mənt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An act or instance of annulling. countable, uncountable

    "marriage annulment"

  2. 2
    the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of having been annulled. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc.) wordnet
  5. 5
    An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the state of being cancelled or annulled wordnet
  2. 7
    A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    Total destruction. archaic, countable, uncountable

Etymology

Recorded since the 15th century (sense destruction); from Middle English anullement, partly from annullen (from Middle French annuller, from Latin annūllāre, from ad (“to”) + nūllus (“not any, nothing”) + verbal ending -āre) + -ment (“means to”) (from Latin -mentum) and partly from Middle French annullement. By surface analysis, annul + -ment.

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