A legal action that cancels a marriage as if it never happened, or the canceling of something.
From Latin 'annullare' meaning 'to reduce to nothing,' from 'ad-' (to) plus 'nullus' (nothing). The word literally means 'making null' or 'making nothing' of something.
An annulment is legally different from a divorce—it says the marriage was invalid from the start, like it never existed. The Latin root 'nullus' (nothing) also gives us 'null' and 'nullify'!
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