All 4 Uses of
abolish
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Impassive faces, yet with a suspended—not an abolished—expression on them; faces, rather, in a fearful pause, as having yet to raise the dropped lids of the eyes, and bear witness with the bloodless lips, "THOU DIDST IT!"†
Chpt 2.21
- The illuminated village had seized hold of the tocsin, and, abolishing the lawful ringer, rang for joy.†
Chpt 2.23 *
- It hushed the eloquent, struck down the powerful, abolished the beautiful and good.†
Chpt 3.4
- Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they had used their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people.†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
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(abolish) eliminate (end, or do away with)