abolition
noun
the act of abolishing or the state of being abolished: the abolition of capital punishment;
abolitions
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pluralof abolition.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But the think tank argues abolitions also cost money and time in the short term, with services disrupted when powers are transferred.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
Further abolitions and moratoriums since then mean that most countries no longer use the punishment, although several large nations including China, Iran and the United States maintain it.
From Reuters ● Oct. 9, 2021
Through most of the last century, “there was a strategic withdrawal from capital punishment as business-as-usual in European nations, long before abolitions started to spread.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2014
Born under the French Directory and the Presidency of Washington, Carlyle survived two French empires, two kingdoms, and two republics; elsewhere partitions, abolitions, revivals and deaths of States innumerable.
From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol
There are easy abolitions, which are wrought in some sort of themselves, and which seem the natural corollary of a political revolution; as, for instance, that which occurred forty years ago in the Spanish republics.
From The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. by Mary L. (Mary Louise) Booth
