Synonym: abolishment. Similar words: volition, coalition, litigation, abolish, politic, politics, political, politically. Meaning: [‚æbəʊ'lɪʃn] 
n. the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery).
n. the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery). 
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(151) Professor Eagleson called for the abolition of the Word " hereby ".
(152) Europe is the Holocaust, but it is also the destruction of Nazism; it is the Gulag, but also the fall of the Wall; imperialism, but also decolonization; slavery, but also abolition.
(153) The Treasury will scrap 43 of the 47 tax reliefs identified as ripe for abolition by the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS), a body set up by Mr Osborne last year.
(154) It became obsolete with the virtual abolition of imprisonment for debt in 1880.
(155) Why, then, has the Communist Party announced the abolition of the worker-peasant democratic dictatorship and the discontinuance of confiscating the land of landlords?
(156) the abolition of slavery.
(157) Some people seemed to believe that with the abolition of the emperor, China had become a democratic country and that hence forth everything would take its proper course.
More similar words: volition, coalition, litigation, abolish, politic, politics, political, politically, politician, political party, abortion, edition, abomination, sedition, addition, ambition, position, fruition, tradition, condition, munitions, collaboration, proliferation, in addition, conditions, exhibition, composition, opposition, expedition, transition.