ABOLITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abolition mean? 

• ABOLITION (noun)
  The noun ABOLITION has 1 sense:

1. the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)

  Familiarity information: ABOLITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABOLITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

abolishment; abolition

Context example:

the abolition of capital punishment

Hypernyms ("abolition" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Derivation:

abolish (do away with)

abolitionary (relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery)

 Context examples 

You quite shock me; if you mean a fling at the slave-trade, I assure you Mr. Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)