abrogation
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Etymology [edit]
- First attested in 1535.
- From Middle French abrogation, from Latin abrogātiō (“repealed”), from abrogo, from ab (“from”) + rogo (“ask, inquire”).
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abrogation (plural abrogations)
- The act of abrogating; a repeal by authority; abolition. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
- 1853, Herman Melville, Herman, Bartleby, the Scrivener, quoted in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, published 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, page 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.
- 1853, Herman Melville, Herman, Bartleby, the Scrivener, quoted in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, published 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, page 2:
References [edit]
- ^ 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 8:
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abrogation f (plural abrogations)
