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abolition
[ ab-uh-lish-uhn ]
noun
- the act of abolishing or the state of being abolished: the abolition of capital punishment;
the abolition of war;
the abolition of capital punishment;
the abolition of unfair taxes.
Synonyms: invalidation, eradication, repeal, revocation, nullification, elimination, annihilation
Antonyms: establishment
- the legal prohibition of slavery, especially the institutional enslavement of Black people in the U.S.
abolition
/ ˌæbəˈlɪʃən /
noun
- the act of abolishing or the state of being abolished; annulment
- often capital (in British territories) the ending of the slave trade (1807) or the ending of slavery (1833): accomplished after a long campaign led by William Wilberforce
- often capital (in the US) the emancipation of the slaves, accomplished by the Emancipation Proclamation issued in 1863 and ratified in 1865
Derived Forms
- ˌaboˈlitionist, nounadjective
- ˌaboˈlitionism, noun
- ˌaboˈlitionary, adjective
Other Words From
- abo·lition·ary adjective
- nonab·o·lition noun
- proab·o·lition adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of abolition1
Word History and Origins
Origin of abolition1
Example Sentences
That success — and the steady transformation of the motion to recommit into a political cudgel — has prompted many Democrats to call for its modification or abolition.
Most people understand the abolition of policing, for instance, to be about the elimination of the police.
When people speak of abolition, they think about it as a far-off thing.
However, when the recent protests erupted, skeptics called police abolition extreme and impossible.
Phrases like “abolish police,” “defund police” and “police abolition” — concepts that have been central to the Black Lives Matter movement but less mainstream when discussing police reform — have also seen sharp upticks in interest.
A foreigner such as Bartholdi viewed the abolition of slavery as Liberty achieved in the United States.
And while abolition of the air force is unlikely, the factions that believe in the primacy of boots on the ground are influential.
The acting President vetoed the abolition but the parliamentary move still rankles in Crimea.
Why isn't his first step the abolition of the State Department's outrageous program of state-sponsored serfdom?
There is no goal of the abolition of the State of Israel, or even its transformation into one secular democratic state.
Ample tolerance of all religions and sects, but abolition and expulsion of all monastic Orders.
Pipes continued to appear upon the stage until its abolition (in company with the Prayer Book) by the Puritan rulers.
His reign was brief, but was distinguished for various important measures of reform, and the abolition of colonial slavery.
The government would not act a weak part in conceding the abolition of the oath in the said cases.
That government seems at present disposed to concede the abolition of that oath to the Catholics of Ireland.
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