abolition
IPA: æbʌɫˈɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of abolishing; an annulling; abrogation.
- The state of being abolished.
- (historical, often capitalised, UK, US) The ending of the slave trade or of slavery.
- (historical, often capitalised, Australia) The ending of convict transportation.
- (obsolete) An amnesty; a putting out of memory.
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Examples of "abolition" in Sentences
- This led to the abolition of the system.
- He supports the abolition of the monarchy.
- Lovejoy was the first martyr of the abolition movement.
- Rousseau was the first to prescribe the abolition of the city.
- Also the concentration of abolition in the US isn't justified.
- The abolition of the Overseas Trade Department was recommended.
- At the screening he pleaded for the abolition of atomic weapons.
- It was the abolition of the slave trade, not the abolition of slavery.
- In practice, the economics of the abolition are difficult to quantify.
- Emancipation Day is a remembrance of the abolition of Chattel Slavery.
- For the attending audience, the term "abolition" was not a novel concept.
- And in addition to the word abolition, which comes from 1787, we have slave driver.
- In slave lands, the word abolition was about as polite as some of the more colorful expletives of a river rat.
- The pantomime and melodrama versions of Obi, or Three-finger'd Jack played an important role in abolition debates and in the career of Ira
- I understand the Rothbardian, knee-jerk impulse to say "abolish federal agency X," but I'm not sure abolition is even necessary, so long as people are allowed to "innovate around" existing bureaucracy.
- The Genies are long out of the bottle as the Scots and the Welsh assemblies would now have to make a serious mess of it to earn sufficient enmity, nay the deep hatred of their electorates that their abolition is demanded.
- They first insisted that the abolition of the slave-trade would ruin the colonies -- next the _abolition of slavery_ was to be the certain destruction of the islands -- and now the education of children is deprecated as fraught with disastrous consequences.
- The last successful American third party, the Republicans, had a noble cause in abolition and the dominant political imperative in American history: Union, and they elected several candidates to statewide office before Lincoln (their second Presidential nominee) won the White House.
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