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abolition

/ab-uh-lish-uhn/US // ˌæb əˈlɪʃ ən //UK // (ˌæbəˈlɪʃən) //

废除,废止,裁撤,取消

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of abolishing or the state of being abolished: the abolition of war;the abolition of capital punishment;the abolition of unfair taxes.
    • : the legal prohibition of slavery, especially the institutional enslavement of Black people in the U.S.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounformal act of putting an end to, annulling

Examples

  • That success — and the steady transformation of the motion to recommit into a political cudgel — has prompted many Democrats to call for its modification or abolition.

  • When people speak of abolition, they think about it as a far-off thing.

  • Most people understand the abolition of policing, for instance, to be about the elimination of the police.

  • However, when the recent protests erupted, skeptics called police abolition extreme and impossible.

  • Phrases like “abolish police,” “defund police” and “police abolition” — concepts that have been central to the Black Lives Matter movement but less mainstream when discussing police reform — have also seen sharp upticks in interest.

  • A foreigner such as Bartholdi viewed the abolition of slavery as Liberty achieved in the United States.

  • And while abolition of the air force is unlikely, the factions that believe in the primacy of boots on the ground are influential.

  • The acting President vetoed the abolition but the parliamentary move still rankles in Crimea.

  • Why isn't his first step the abolition of the State Department's outrageous program of state-sponsored serfdom?

  • There is no goal of the abolition of the State of Israel, or even its transformation into one secular democratic state.

  • Ample tolerance of all religions and sects, but abolition and expulsion of all monastic Orders.

  • Pipes continued to appear upon the stage until its abolition (in company with the Prayer Book) by the Puritan rulers.

  • His reign was brief, but was distinguished for various important measures of reform, and the abolition of colonial slavery.

  • The government would not act a weak part in conceding the abolition of the oath in the said cases.

  • That government seems at present disposed to concede the abolition of that oath to the Catholics of Ireland.