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Definition of Abolishing
1. abolish [v] - See also: abolish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abolishing
Literary usage of Abolishing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readings in Modern European History: A Collection of Extracts from the by James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard (1908)
"Decree abolishing monastic orders The property of the Inquisition shall be
sequestered and fall to the Spanish state, to serve as security for the bonded ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1875)
"The question of abolishing the State constabulary occupied the time of a special
... at of this law as is desired, shall wo gain any thing by abolishing tho ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"AN ARGUMENT TO PROVE THAT THE abolishing OF CHRISTIANITY IN ENGLAND MAY, AS THINGS
Now STAND, BE ATTENDED WITH SOME INCONVENIENCES, AND PERHAPS NOT PRODUCE ..."
4. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1889)
"abolishing the Pope's authority in England. Parliament passed the act of supremacy, "
That the King, our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors, ..."
5. The Reformation: By George P. Fisher by George Park Fisher (1891)
"This was followed by another great measure for the further humbling of ecclesiastical
power — the abolishing of the cloisters and the confiscation of their ..."
6. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens (1906)
"Act abolishing the Office of King 214. Act abolishing the Office of King (1648,
March 17. Scobell, ii. 7. Gardiner, 384-387.) WHEREAS Charles Stuart ..."
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