单词 | abolishment |
释义 | abolishmentn. The process of abolishing or putting an end to something; suppression, annulment, destruction; an instance of this.Abolition is now in more common use.In quot. 1869: a state of annihilation resulting from being abolished. 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 1538 R. Taverner in tr. Erasmus Sarcerius Common Places of Script. Ep. Ded. sig. Aiii Where so euer throughout the worlde the abolyshment of the bysshop of Romes vsurped power shal be bruted or cronicled. 1542 T. Becon Potacion for Lent sig. K.viijv Remember that he offred hymselfe..for the abolysshement of all your synnes. ?1551 Sessions against Gardiner in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) iv. 835/2 The kynges supremacie, and thabolyshement of the byshop of Romes author[it]ie. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xxxii. 351/1 Abolishment of the peruerse law of the West-Saxons. 1626 T. Scott Sir Walter Rawleighs Ghost (1651) 200 Decreeing the abolishment and death of mankind in revenge of their sinnes. 1717 J. Swift Argument Abol. Christianity 33 The abolishment of the Christian Religion, will be the readiest Course we can take to introduce Popery. 1787 A. Becket Reformation 63 When I talk of an abolishment of Christianity, I mean, that every outward appearance of religion be banished from among us, so that our pleasures may be free and unconfined. 1812 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 8 328 By abolishing that system in the countries which he has subjected, and by necessitating its abolishment in others. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 245 Abolishment is nothingness And nothingness has neither head nor tail. 1881 Journ. Educ. 1 Feb. 25/2 The main points urged in the memorial were—1. the abolishment of payment for pass. 1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman xxii. 274 Success is a word that could not even be defined before the abolishment of eternity. 1991 M. Atwood Wilderness Tips 36 It's a negation of him, an abolishment of him, like ripping a medal off his chest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1538 |
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