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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abolition \Ab"o*li"tion\, n. [L. abolitio, fr. abolere: cf. F.
     abolition. See {Abolish}.]
     The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an
     annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition
     of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws,
     decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The application of this word to persons is now unusual
           or obsolete
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  abolition
       n : the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution
           (especially abolishing slavery); "the abolition of
           capital punishment" [syn: {abolishment}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "abolition":
     abolishment, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, cancel,
     canceling, cancellation, cassation, choking, choking off,
     countermand, counterorder, defeasance, deracination, destruction,
     elimination, end, eradication, extermination, extinction,
     extinguishment, extirpation, invalidation, liquidation, negation,
     nullification, purge, recall, recantation, renege, repeal,
     repudiation, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retraction,
     reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, rooting out,
     setting aside, silencing, snuffing out, stifling, strangulation,
     suffocation, suppression, suspension, termination, uprooting,
     vacation, vacatur, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal,
     write-off
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ABOLITION. An act by which a thing is extinguished, abrogated or
  annihilated.  Merl. Repert, h.t., as, the abolition of slavery is the
  destruction of slavery.
       2. In the civil and French law abolition is used nearly synonymously
  with pardon, remission, grace. Dig. 39, 4, 3, 3. There is, however, this
  difference; grace is the generic term; pardon, according to those laws, is
  the clemency which the prince extends to a man who has participated in a
  crime, without being a principal or accomplice; remission is made in cases
  of involuntary homicides, and self-defence.  Abolition is different: it is
  used when the crime cannot be remitted.  The prince then may by letters of
  abolition remit the punishment, but the infamy remains, unless letters of
  abolition have been obtained before sentence. Encycl. de d'Alembert, h.t.
       3. The term abolition is used in the German law in the same sense as in
  the French law. Encycl. Amer. h.t. The term abolition is derived from the
  civil law, in which it is sometimes used synonymously with absolution. Dig.
  39, 4, 3, 3.
  
  

















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