abrogation

Definizione monolingua

abrogation

abrogation (plural abrogations)

1. The act of abrogating; a repeal by authority.
   • 1853, Herman Melville, Herman, Bartleby, the Scrivener, quoted in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, published 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, page 2:

     […] I consider the sudden and violent abrogation of the office of Master in Chancery, by the new Constitution, as a __ premature act; inasmuch as I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years.

Definizione dizionario abrogation

	abrogazione
	An official or legal cancellation.

abolizione

annullamento

disdetta

Altri significati:

The act of abrogating; a repeal by authority - David Hume