Abolishing
[ə'bɒlɪʃ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abolish
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Examples
- Early in the session of the Congress which met in December, 1839, a bill was discussed abolishing the Military Academy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For those earnest men and women in Chicago did not set out to find a way of abolishing prostitution; they set out to find a way that would conform to four idols they worshiped. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The illuminated village had seized hold of the tocsin, and, abolishing the lawful ringer, rang for joy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- To subjugate devastating disease is no longer a dream; the hope of abolishing poverty is not utopian. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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