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  • You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated
  • Only a handful of students wanted to work for the Wave, and I ended up writing so many of the articles that I abolished bylines; it looked a little ridiculous having my name appear four times on the front page.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated (did away with)
  • The constitutional monarchy had been abolished, replaced by a republic, led by a president of the republic.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated (done away with)
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  • The Bird's rules were abolished.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated (done away with)
  • He would not dare abolish a personal prelature established by a previous Pope!  (source)
    abolish = eliminate
  • It was also dedicated to abolishing the evil institution of slavery.  (source)
    abolishing = eliminating (doing away with)
  • For the sinews no more bind together the flesh and the bones, but the great force of burning fire abolishes these, so soon as the life hath left the white bones, and the spirit like a dream flies forth and hovers near.†  (source)
    abolishes = eliminates
  • For those several times he had made her change "total abolishment" (vollstandige Abschaffung) to Vernichtung.†  (source)
    abolishment = elimination
  • We have abolished parole in many states.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated (done away with)
  • A national legislature can control, direct, or abolish local authority at any time.  (source)
    abolish = eliminate
  • Prudence indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed.  (source)
    abolishing = eliminating (doing away with)
  • Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.†  (source)
    abolishes = eliminates
  • Total abolishment.†  (source)
    abolishment = elimination
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