Both Uses of
abolition
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- It's a beautiful Utopian dream of the abolition of war, diplomacy, banks, and so on—something after the fashion of socialism, indeed.†
Chpt 2 *
- He had unmistakably been, at some time, in good and fashionable society, had once had good connections, had possibly preserved them indeed, but, after a gay youth, becoming gradually impoverished on the abolition of serfdom, he had sunk into the position of a poor relation of the best class, wandering from one good old friend to another and received by them for his companionable and accommodating disposition and as being, after all, a gentleman who could be asked to sit down with any one, though, of course, not in a place of honor.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
the act of formally ending a system, practice, or institution -- most often used to refer to the movement to end slavery when no specific system is named