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- DictionaryAn·nul·ment/əˈnəlmənt/
noun
- 1. the act of annulling something: "the applicant sought the annulment of the decision"
1. : the act of annulling something : the state of being annulled. 2. : a judicial or ecclesiastical pronouncement declaring a marriage invalid. Did you know? Annulment usually applies to marriage.
noun [ C or U ] uk / əˈnʌl.mənt / us / əˈnʌl.mənt / Add to word list. an official announcement that something such as a law, agreement, or marriage no longer exists, or the process of making this announcement: Judges only grant marriage annulments in exceptional circumstances.
Annulment is a legal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void.
Annulment definition: the act of annulling, especially the formal declaration that annuls a marriage.. See examples of ANNULMENT used in a sentence.
An annulment is a legal procedure that voids a marriage and declares it null from its inception. Unlike divorce, the effect of declaring a marriage void is retroactive, meaning that the marriage was void at the time it was entered into.
An annulment is the cancellation of revocation of something, like a marriage. After an annulment, it's like the marriage never happened. The root nul (from Latin nullum) of this word is a good clue to its meaning: the underlying verb annul originally meant "reduce to nothing."
noun. An often formal act of putting an end to: abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, cancellation, defeasance, invalidation, negation, nullification, voidance. Law: avoidance, extinguishment.
