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Repeal vs Annulment - What's the difference?

repeal | annulment |

As nouns the difference between repeal and annulment

is that repeal is an act or instance of repealing while annulment is an act or instance of annulling.

As a verb repeal

is to cancel, invalidate, annul.

repeal

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cancel, invalidate, annul.
    • to repeal a law
  • To recall; to summon (a person) again.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
  • To suppress; to repel.
  • * Milton
    • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

    Synonyms

    * annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of repealing.

    • Anagrams

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    annulment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of annulling.
  • A state of having been annulled.
  • An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract
  • A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.
  • (archaic) Total destruction.

    • Synonyms

    * abolition * nullification (cognate) * cancellation