Aufhebung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abolition noun The act of officially ending a law, system, or practice, especially slavery.
- abrogation noun The act of officially stopping or canceling something.
- cancellation noun The act of calling something off or making it void.
Senses
Aufhebung is used for these senses in English:
- abolition The act of abolishing; an annulling; abrogation. [First attested around the early 16th century.]
- abrogation The act of abrogating.
- cancellation The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
abrogation — full definition
- noun The act of officially stopping or canceling something.
- noun An official cancellation of a law or rule by those with the power to do so.
- noun (science) The blocking of a process at the molecular level.
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