Abrogate vs. Rescind — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Abrogate and Rescind
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Abrogate
Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement)
A proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike
Rescind
To make void; repeal or annul.
Abrogate
Evade (a responsibility or duty)
We believe the board is abrogating its responsibilities to its shareholders
Rescind
(transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
The agency will rescind the policy because many people are dissatisfied with it.
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).
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Rescind
(transitive) To cut away or off.
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.
Rescind
To cut off; to abrogate; to annul.
The blessed Jesus . . . did sacramentally rescind the impure relics of Adam and the contraction of evil customs.
Abrogate
(transitive) To put an end to; to do away with.
Rescind
Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.
Abrogate
To block a process or function.
Rescind
Annul by recalling or rescinding;
He revoked the ban on smoking
Lift an embargo
Vacate a death sentence
Abrogate
(archaic) Abrogated; abolished.
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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