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abrogation

UK/ˌæb.ɹəˈɡeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/US/ˌæb.ɹəˈɡeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

An abrogation is the formal cancelling of a law or a treaty. The abrogation of the treaty.

It is a legal act rather than a breach, which is the whole difference. Abrogation of a treaty usually requires notice, and the notice period is often years.

Definitions of abrogation

  1. 1nounabrogationThe formal cancelling of a law or a treaty.C2

    “The abrogation took effect eighteen months after notice.”

abrogation is a cancelling.

Where it comes from

Latin abrogatio, from ab, away, plus rogare, to ask or propose; a law was proposed and could be unproposed.

  1. Latin

    abrogātiō — repealed

  2. Middle French

    abrogation

  3. English, today

    abrogation

Built from

  • ab · Latin — from
  • rogo · Latin — ask, inquire

First attested in 1535. From Middle French abrogation, from Latin abrogātiō (“repealed”), from abrogo, from ab (“from”) + rogo (“ask, inquire”). by surface analysis, ab- + rog- + -ate + -ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

abrogation in the wild

  • Naskh is an Arabic word usually translated as "abrogation".

    Naskh (tafsir)

  • Since the state constituent assembly dissolved itself without recommending the abrogation of Article 370, the article was deemed to have become a permanent feature of the Indian Constitution.

    Article 370 of the Constitution of India

  • On 11 December 2023, a five judge constitution bench unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution.

    Article 370 of the Constitution of India

  • The most important concession the Italians made was the abrogation of the Treaty of Wuchale and recognizing Ethiopia as an independent country.

    Treaty of Addis Ababa

  • Larry Klayman filed a lawsuit, alleging that the law was an unconstitutional abrogation of the Senate's Treaty Power.

    Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the rogo family

interrogationsurrogate

abrogation — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others