Illicit vs Null - What's the difference?
illicit | null |
(legal) Not approved by law, but not invalid.
* {{quote-book
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, title = Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership
, first = Madeleine
, last = Albright
, authorlink = Madeleine Albright
, location = New York
, publisher = HarperCollins
, isbn = 9780061351808
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, passage = Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do then they are trespassers, not criminals.
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Breaking social norms.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1993
, title = Diaries: In Power 1983-1992
, first = Alan
, last = Clark
, authorlink = Alan Clark
, location = London
, publisher = Weidenfeld and Nicholson
, isbn = 0297813528
, ol = 1046930M
, passage = I only can properly enjoy carol services if I am having an illicit affair with someone in the congregation.
}}
Unlawful.
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, date = 2010-07-29
, title = (The Dervish House)
, first = Ian
, last = McDonald
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, isbn = 9780575089044
, ol = 25418126M
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=-rgZys-M4q4C&pg=PT328&dq=illicit
, passage = Ay?e ErkoƧ learned long ago that the secret of doing anything illicit in Istanbul is to do it in full public gaze in the clear light of day. No one ever questions the legitimacy of the blatant.
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A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective illicit
is (legal) not approved by law, but not invalid.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.illicit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The bigamous marriage, while illicit, was not invalid.
Usage notes
Licit and valid are legal terms to be compared, especially in terms of canon law. With bigamy, if there is an innocent party, the innocent party is validly married; the problem is with the guilty party, who has entered into an illegal second marriage without first divorcing the earlier spouse. The marriage is valid in canon law (and often, civil law), but the guilty party goes to jail nonetheless, in that the marriage is illicit (and illegal), and the innocent party routinely receives a fast annulment and the full sympathy of the court. A corollary is that the children born of such unions are inherently legitimate.Synonyms
* criminal * illegal * illegitimate * prohibited * unlawfulnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.