Officially declared void or invalid, especially regarding a marriage or contract that is treated as if it never existed.
From Latin 'annullare' meaning to reduce to nothing; 'ad-' (to) + 'nullus' (none/nothing), literally to make null or void.
An annulled marriage is legally treated as if it never happened—different from divorce, which acknowledges the marriage existed but ended. Vatican annulments in Catholicism once were rarer than actual divorces because they required proving the marriage was never valid.
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