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English
Etymology
From Middle French abolissement, from aboliss-, stem of some conjugated forms abolir,[1] equivalent to abolish + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
abolishment (countable and uncountable, plural abolishments)
- The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. [2]
Translations
The act of abolishing
- Arabic: إِلْغَاء (ar) m (ʔilḡāʔ), إِبطَال m
- Egyptian Arabic: إلغاء m (ʔelḡāʔ), إبطال m (ʔebāl)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 廢除 / 废除 (zh) (fèichú), 取消 (zh) (qǔxiāo)
- Dutch: afschaffing (nl) f, opheffing (nl)
- Finnish: poistaminen (fi), lakkauttaminen (fi), kumoaminen (fi)
- French: abolissement (fr) m, abolition (fr) f, abrogation (fr) f
- German: Abschaffung (de) f
- Japanese: 廃止 (ja) (はいし, haishi)
- Polish: zniesienie (pl)
- Portuguese: abolimento m, abolição (pt) f
- Russian: отме́на (ru) f (otména)
- Spanish: abolición (es) f
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References
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN), page 4
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abolishment”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.