Dictionary entry

Nullification

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Nul′li‐fi‐ca″tion (?), n. [L. nullificatio contempt. See Nullify.] The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect.

Right of nullification(U. S. Hist.), the right claimed in behalf of a State to nullify or make void, by its sovereign act or decree, an enactment of the general government which it deems unconstitutional.