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What does annulment mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word annulment? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. An act or instance of annulling.
  2. The state of having been annulled.
  3. (law) An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
  4. (law) A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.
  5. (archaic) Total destruction.
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Reasons for annulment include physical incapacity, physical violence, or pressure to change one's religious or political beliefs.
The administrative court interprets the applicant's interest in seeking annulment for illegality liberally.
Then, if we did get an annulment, our reputations would be fixed as liars and hypocrites.
My own mother was threatened with a marriage annulment and institutionalization if she sought a divorce for my father's rapes and beatings of the kids.
Carlos Westendorp, the senior western mediator in Bosnia, has deemed the court's annulment of the election unconstitutional.
In its well-reasoned decision of 9 October 2001, the Court of Justice of the European Communities rejected this action for annulment.

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