What does abolition mean?
Definitions for abolition
ˌæb əˈlɪʃ ənabo·li·tion
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Princeton's WordNet
abolition, abolishmentnoun
the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)
"the abolition of capital punishment"
Wiktionary
abolitionnoun
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.
abolitionnoun
The ending of the slave trade (1807) or of slavery (1833).
abolitionnoun
The emancipation of slaves, by the Emancipation Proclamation (1863, ratified 1865).
Etymology: * First attested in 1529.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Abolitionnoun
The act of abolishing. This is now more frequently used than abolishment.
Etymology: from abolish.
From the total abolition of the popular power, may be dated the ruin of Rome: for had the reducing hereof to its ancient condition, proposed by Agrippa, been accepted instead of Mæcenas’s model, that state might have continued unto this day. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, b. iii. c. 4.
An apoplexy is a sudden abolition of all the senses, external and internal, and of all voluntary motion, by the stoppage of the flux and reflux of the animal spirits through the nerves destined for those motions. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.
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abolition
Abolition refers to the act of formally putting an end to a system, practice, or institution, often one that is considered legally or morally wrong. This is often used in context of the historical movement that sought to end slavery.
Webster Dictionary
Abolitionnoun
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
Etymology: [L. abolitio, fr. abolere: cf. F. abolition. See Abolish.]
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The numerical value of abolition in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of abolition in a Sentence
The abolition of the cap will cost jobs, but the sector overcame the franc crisis in 2011 and will also cope with this crisis.
The followers of Islamist-terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah striving for the abolition of the Jewish State of Israel are focused on their regions of origin, which is where they commit most of their terrorist acts of violence.
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
I make an appeal to the conscience of all rulers, so that we can achieve an international consensus for the abolition of the death penalty.
The long-term trend is definitely positive -- we are seeing a decrease in the number of executions (worldwide), a number of countries are closer to abolition, and there are some signs that some countries will be abolitionist by 2015. (There are) signals of a world that is nearing abolition.
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- إبطال, إلغاءArabic
- премахване, отменянеBulgarian
- Aufhebung, AbschaffungGerman
- κατάργησηGreek
- aboliciónSpanish
- [[orjuuden]] [[lakkauttaminen]], lakkauttaminen, [[orjakaupan]] [[lakkauttaminen]], mitätöinti, [[orjien]] [[vapauttaminen]], kumoaminenFinnish
- abolitionFrench
- abolisyonHaitian Creole
- 撤廃, 廃止Japanese
- abolisjonNorwegian
- aboliçãoPortuguese
- abolirea sclaviei, abolireRomanian
- отменаRussian
- abolícijaSerbo-Croatian
- motståndSwedish
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