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Invalidating   /ɪnvˈælədˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Invalidating

adjective
1.
Establishing as invalid or untrue.  Synonym: disconfirming.



Invalidate

verb
(past & past part. invalidated; pres. part. invalidating)
1.
Declare invalid.  Synonyms: annul, avoid, nullify, quash, void.  "Void a plea"
2.
Make invalid for use.  Synonym: cancel.
3.
Show to be invalid.  Synonym: nullify.
4.
Take away the legal force of or render ineffective.  Synonyms: vitiate, void.






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"Invalidating" Quotes from Famous Books



... experimenter against every possible error of this kind. Sometimes the omission or the addition of a single phrase in giving the test will alter materially the significance of the response. Only the trained psychologist can vary the formula without risk of invalidating the result, and even he must be on his guard. All sorts of misunderstandings regarding the correct placing of tests and regarding their accuracy or inaccuracy have come about through the failure of different investigators to follow ...
— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman

... in the briefest outlines; but still I hope you will agree that I have established my point, and that the physiological view of mentality, so far from invalidating, can but give aid and comfort to the theistic attitude of mind. Between agnosticism and gnosticism, theism stands midway, and holds to what is true in each. With agnosticism, it goes so far as to confess that we cannot know how Being made itself or us. With gnosticism, it goes so far as to insist ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James

... counts are inadvertently introduced, the mischief may be easily obviated by taking a verdict of acquittal upon them—by entering a nolle prosequi to them, or by seeing that the judgment is expressly stated to be on the good counts only, which alone could prevent the bad counts from invalidating the judgment ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various



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