Read full poem →20. For abolishing the free system of English laws in a
neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary gov-
Dictionary Entry
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
In a Sentence
“Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
slavery abolishingabolishing withoutabolishing act
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Poetry examples for “abolishing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →more di-posed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves ty abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when along train of abuses and usurpa-
Read full poem →Gives an inexpugnable c!aim
To abolishing men into slaves.
Emperor
Read full poem →a bishop. But, in 1528, when they followed the example of the city of
Berne, in destroying images, and abolishing the Roman ceremonies, the
bishop and his clergy were expelled from the city, which from that
Read full poem →Till Beauty came to snap all ties;
The maid, abolishing the past,
With lotus wine obliterates