abolishment
English
Etymology
From Middle French abolissement, from aboliss-, stem of some conjugated forms abolir.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
abolishment (countable and uncountable, plural abolishments)
- The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. [First attested from the mid 16th century.][2]
Translations
The act of abolishing
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References
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 4
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abolishment”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.