Literary notes about nullity (AI summary)
The word "nullity" in literature functions as a multifaceted term that oscillates between denoting absolute invalidity and suggesting profound existential emptiness. In legal and governmental contexts, it is used to describe something that is legally void or effectively powerless, as seen when a government branch or contract is rendered worthless [1], [2]. Meanwhile, in more poetic or psychological narratives, nullity represents an internal or existential void, capturing the feeling of nonexistence or diminished identity [3], [4]. Additionally, its precise use in analytical frameworks—such as in logic where it interacts with entities to produce a determinate outcome—underscores its capacity to illustrate the absence of value or function in both concrete and abstract realms [5], [6].
- So far as the slave States are concerned, it is a perfect nullity.
— from A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden - Upon hearing any cause for divorce the court may decree either a divorce or a decree of nullity.
— from Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose - So there came over Skrebensky a sort of nullity, which more and more terrified Ursula.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - Individual conscience, too, which heretofore had been a nullity, was thenceforward to stand for something.
— from Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 3 (of 8) English Explorations and Settlements in North America 1497-1689 - This includes any Pair of Premisses, of which one is a Nullity and the other an Entity, and which contain Like Eliminands.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - In this case we see that the Conclusion is a Nullity, and that the Retinends have kept their Signs.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll
