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Abrogate vs. Rescind — What's the Difference?

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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