abrogation

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English

Etymology

First attested in 1535. From Middle French abrogation, from Latin abrogātiō (“repealed”), from abrogo, from ab (“from”) + rogo (“ask, inquire”).

Pronunciation

Noun

abrogation (countable and uncountable, plural abrogations)

  1. The act of abrogating; a repeal by authority; abolition.
    • 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, quoted in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, published 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, page 2:
      […] I consider the sudden and violent abrogation of the office of Master in Chancery, by the new Constitution, as a __ premature act; inasmuch as I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years.

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References

  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrogation”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French abrogation, from Latin abrogātiōnem (“repealed”), from Latin abrogō, from ab (“from”) + rogo (“ask, inquire”).

Pronunciation

Noun

abrogation f (plural abrogations)

  1. abrogation; repeal

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