abrogation
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin abrogatio, from abrogare: compare French abrogation or abroger
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
[edit] Noun
abrogation (plural abrogations)
- The act of abrogating; a repeal by authority.
- 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:
[edit] French
[edit] Noun
abrogation f. (plural abrogations)
