Abolish vs. Abrogate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Abolish and Abrogate
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Abolish
Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
The tax was abolished in 1977
Abrogate
Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement)
A proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike
Abolish
To do away with; put an end to; annul
Voted to abolish the tax.
Abrogate
Evade (a responsibility or duty)
We believe the board is abrogating its responsibilities to its shareholders
Abolish
(Archaic) To destroy completely.
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Abrogate
To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority
"Our existing Aboriginal and treaty rights were now part of the supreme law of the land, and could not be abrogated or denied by any government" (Matthew Coon Come).
Abolish
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
Abrogate
To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
Abolish
(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
Abrogate
(transitive) To put an end to; to do away with.
Abolish
To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; - said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.
Abrogate
To block a process or function.
Abolish
To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out.
And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
His quick instinctive handCaught at the hilt, as to abolish him.
Abrogate
(archaic) Abrogated; abolished.
Abolish
Do away with;
Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia
Abrogate
Abrogated; abolished.
Abrogate
To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; - applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old.
Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate.
Abrogate
To put an end to; to do away with.
Abrogate
Revoke formally
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