Definitions for abolition
ˌæb əˈlɪʃ ənabo·li·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. abolition, abolishmentnoun

   the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)

   "the abolition of capital punishment"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. 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.

2. abolitionnoun

   The ending of the slave trade (1807) or of slavery (1833).

3. abolitionnoun

   The emancipation of slaves, by the Emancipation Proclamation (1863, ratified 1865).

4. Etymology: * First attested in 1529.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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

2. Etymology: [L. abolitio, fr. abolere: cf. F. abolition. See Abolish.]

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'abolition' in Nouns Frequency: #2763

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of abolition in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of abolition in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of abolition in a Sentence

1. Bill Hagerty:

   It is outrageous that after dismantling commonsense border security measures and unleashing a record-setting border crisis, Secretary Mayorkas has hired an organization that has openly called for the abolition of ICE—one of his own agencies, as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I’ll continue to hold the Biden Administration accountable and ensure that taxpayer-funded programs aren’t hijacked by organizations that oppose the very mission of the program.

2. Hkalam Samson:

   I don’t think anyone can say with any certainty what might happen over the next three days, what’s likely is that Myanmar’s veering towards its most acute constitutional crisis since the abolition of the old junta in 2010.

3. Guttmacher Institute:

   As a Black liberation movement guided by Black feminist values and a commitment to abolition, we see the fall of Roe for what it is : another avenue for the state to criminalize, surveil and harm the most vulnerable among us.

4. Jack Markell:

   We must publicly and candidly acknowledge the lasting damage of past sins – damage that continues to reverberate more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery.

5. Hans Hess:

   The abolition of the cap will cost jobs, but the sector overcame the franc crisis in 2011 and will also cope with this crisis.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=abolition
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Abolition
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=abolition
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abolition