abrogation

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin abrogatio, from abrogare: compare French abrogation or abroger

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn

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abrogation (plural abrogations)

1. The act of abrogating; a repeal by authority - David Hume

   1853 Melville, Herman Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.2:

   • [...] I consider the sudden and violent abrogation of the office of Master in Chancery, by the new Constitution, as a __ premature act; inasmuch as I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years.