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abolishment arch.|əˈbɒlɪʃmənt|
[f. abolish v. + -ment. Cf. Fr. abolissement 16th c. (which may be the direct source).]
1. The process of abolishing, putting an end to, or doing away with; annulment, or destruction. (It scarcely differs from abolishing n. on the one hand, or abolition on the other: the latter is now generally used instead.)
1542–60Becon Potation for Lent Wks. 1843, 119 Remember that he offered himself..for the abolishment of all your sins. 1563Foxe A. & M. 835/2 The Kynges supremacie, and thabolyshement of the byshop of Rome's author[it]ie. 1611Speed Hist. Brit. vii. xxxii. 322 Abolishment of the peruerse law of the West-Saxons. 1626Rawleigh's Ghost (1651) 200 Decreeing the abolishment and death of mankind in revenge of their sinnes. 1812Southey in Q. Rev. VIII. 328 By abolishing that system in the countries which he has subjected, and by necessitating its abolishment in others. 1881Journ. Educ. 1 Feb. 25/2 The main points urged in the memorial were—1. the abolishment of payment for pass.
2. The result of abolishing; a state of annihilation, or cessation of existence.
1868Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 1499 Abolishment is nothingness, And nothingness has neither head nor tail. |