annulment
/əˈnʌl.mənt/ noun
Forms annulments
- noun An act or instance of annulling. “marriage annulment”
- noun The state of having been annulled.
- noun (law) An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
- noun (law, Catholicism) A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.
- noun (archaic) Total destruction.
Synonyms
abolition cancellation nullification abrogation deauthentication devalidation invalidation renunciation revocation termination vitiation declaration of nullity repeal
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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act of annulling; abolition; invalidation.
Etymology [Cf. F. annulement.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “annulment”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details