Nullification vs Divorce - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between nullification and divorce

is that nullification is the act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect while divorce is a divorced man.

(en noun)

The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect.

removal

(wikipedia divorce)

(en noun)

The legal dissolution of a marriage.

Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.

A separation of connected things.

The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.

* Shakespeare

to make divorce of their incorporate league

(obsolete) That which separates.

(Shakespeare)

* (legal dissolution of a marriage) divorcement * (separation of connected things) partition, separation, severance

* marriage

* velvet divorce

(divorc)

To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.

A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.

To end one's own marriage in this way.

Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.

To separate something that was connected.

The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.

To obtain a legal divorce.

Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.

* (to legally dissolve a marriage) split up * (to separate something that was connected) disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, separate

* marry

* innocently divorced