Abolition
[æbə'lɪʃ(ə)n] or [,æbə'lɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery); 'the abolition of capital punishment'.
Edited by Leah--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.
Typed by Levi
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Abrogation, annulment, annulling, nullification, rescinding, revocation, cancelling, repeal, rescission.[2]. Destruction, overthrow, subversion, obliteration, extirpation, eradication, annihilation, extinction, extinguishment, suppression, DISESTABLISHMENT.
Edited by Anselm
Examples
- You quite shock me; if you mean a fling at the slave-trade, I assure you Mr. Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition. Jane Austen. Emma.
- To the matter-of-fact Aristotle, and probably to most practical men, its abolition was inconceivable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If by some magic every taboo of the commission could be enforced the abolition of sex slavery would not have come one step nearer to reality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Question: But you think that their abolition would damage a class of practitioners? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He had proposed a general enfranchisement of the Italians, and he had foreshadowed not only another land law, but a general abolition of debts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet just in the North we find the abolition sentiment strongest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Only when the abolition of white slavery becomes part of the social currents of the time will it bear any interesting analogy to the so-called freeing of the slaves. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What will the Abolition Society think? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So William James proposed not the abolition of war, but a moral equivalent for it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Any change so vast as the abolition of vice is of necessity a change in morals, practice, law and conscience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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