Both Uses of
abrogate
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- Then sweat, heat, mirage, all, rushes fused into a finality which abrogates all logic and justification and obliterates it like fire would: I will not!†
Chpt 13 *
- As though somehow the very fact that he should be so consistently supplied with them elevates him somehow above the petty human hopes and desires which they abrogate and negative.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(abrogate) to abolish (do away with) something