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abolition
[ab-uh-lish-uhn]
noun
the act of abolishing or the state of being abolished: the abolition of capital punishment;
the abolition of war;
the abolition of capital punishment;
the abolition of unfair taxes.
Synonyms: , , , , , ,Antonyms:the legal prohibition of slavery, especially the institutional enslavement of Black people in the U.S.
abolition
/ ˌæəˈɪʃə /
noun
the act of abolishing or the state of being abolished; annulment
(often capital) (in British territories) the ending of the slave trade (1807) or the ending of slavery (1833): accomplished after a long campaign led by William Wilberforce
(often capital) (in the US) the emancipation of the slaves, accomplished by the Emancipation Proclamation issued in 1863 and ratified in 1865
Other Word Forms
- abolitionary adjective
- nonabolition noun
- proabolition adjective
- ˌˈپDzԾ noun
- ˌˈپDzԾ noun
- ˌˈپDzԲ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of abolition1
Word History and Origins
Origin of abolition1
Example Sentences
During the campaign, she described herself as an abolitionist — someone who supports the abolition of police and prisons.
Slated for abolition is the National Institute for Drug Abuse, the research group at the National Institutes of Health that helped develop the nasal version of naloxone.
"They were afraid of going back to their constituencies if they had voted against the abolition of the ZFEs."
Some Labour MPs also want to see the abolition of the two-child benefit cap, which prevents most families from claiming means-tested benefits for any third or additional children born after April 2017.
Slaveowner statesmen of the antebellum South, like John C. Calhoun and Alexander Stephens, were plainly terrified of the racial apocalypse they feared might come with abolition, let alone any version of legal equality.
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