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Definition of Abolition

1. Noun. The act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery). "The abolition of capital punishment"

Definition of Abolition

1. n. The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

Definition of Abolition

1. Noun. The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the ''abolition'' of slavery or the slave trade; the ''abolition'' of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete often capitalised UK) The ending of the slave trade (1807) or of slavery (1833). ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete often capitalised US) The emancipation of slaves, by the ''Emancipation Proclamation'' (1863, ratified 1865). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abolition

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Abolition

Literary usage of Abolition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Middle Period, 1817-1858 by John William Burgess (1897)
"abolition The Philosophy of abolition— William Lloyd Garrison— The Civil Status under the Constitution of 1787 — Points at which Slavery Could be Legally ..."

2. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"That all petitions, memorials, and papers, touching the abolition of slavery or the buying, selling, or transferring of slaves, in any State, District, ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"This was the first act by which any nation in Europe decreed the abolition of slavery. By the side of these attacks of the French philosophers on slavery as ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Declaration as to the abolition of the slave-trade. ... to which the very imminence of its abolition had imparted an unprecedented activity. ..."

5. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"IMMEDIATE abolition (1830-60). In 1829- William Lloyd Garrison, a Massachusetts printer, engaged with Lundy in publishing "The Genius of Universal ..."

6. Great Debates in American Hist: From the Debates in the British Parliament by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller (1913)
"... ON THE RECEPTION OP PETITIONS FOE abolition OP SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA] The Colonization Society—It Requests Aid of tho Government—Debate in ..."

7. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1885)
"Before a decade had gone by, abolition societies sprang up in Rhode Island, ... One State became free; * three others provided for a gradual abolition,! two ..."

8. The constitutional history of England from the accession of Henry vii. to by Henry Hallam (1884)
"abolition of the Monarchy —eel of the House of Lords — Commonwealth — Schemes of Cromwell —His Conversations with Whitelock — Unpopularity of the ..."

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