单词 | abolishing |
释义 | abolishingn. The action or process of putting an end to or doing away with something; suppression, destruction, annihilation; abolition. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > suppression or repression suppressingc1400 repression?a1425 oppressionc1430 repressing1431 suppression1487 nithering1489 repressa1500 abolition1529 abolishment1538 abolishing?1540 repressal1593 suppressal1612 compressure1644 repressment1837 crackdown1935 ?1540 in tr. Erasmus Dialoge Two Persons To Rdr. sig. ✠vv The suppressynge and most to be desired abolishyng of the deuelishe and detestable vsurped aucthoryties. 1547 J. C. tr. P. Melanchthon (title) Melancthon's Epistle made unto..Kynge Henry the Eight for the revoking and abolishing of the Six Articles. 1549 J. Ponet (title) Ochinus, Bernard, of Siena. A Tragedie or Dialoge of the uniuste vsurped Primacie of the Bishop of Rome, and of the iust Abolishyng of the same, etc. 1559 Bp. Scot in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) I. ii. App. x. 27 But maketh fourther earneste request for alteraunce, yea, for the clear abolysshinge of the same. 1602 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Paradoxes against Common Opinion iii. 31 With vtter abolishing of the artes of impression, cutting, grauing, or other kind of stamp. 1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 43 To have prov'd in general the abolishing of tithes. a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xi. 331 The abolishing or cessation of the deeds of the flesh. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 401 The decrease is attributed to the abolishing of cotteries. 1829 Times 17 Mar. 3/3 No act for the abolishing of such a system can be looked at as a real wound to liberty. 1850 J. F. Cooper Ways of Hour xiii. 218 Men who have been reading about the abolishing of capital punishments. 1927 Social Forces 6 185/1 The abolishing of all corporations and the substitution for them of partnerships. 1989 M. Mathabane Kaffir Boy in Amer. (1990) xxxiii. 202 The abolishing of the pass laws means very little to blacks. 1997 G. J. Neimanis Collapse Soviet Empire i. 5 More radical reforms called for the abolishing of the central plan. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?1540 |
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