What is another word for abrogates?

Pronunciation: [ˈabɹəɡˌe͡ɪts] (IPA)

Abrogate means to officially repeal or abolish a law, treaty, or agreement. There are a few synonyms that can be used instead of abrogates, such as revoke, annul, cancel, nullify, and invalidate. Revoking a law, treaty, or agreement means taking it back or canceling it. Annul signifies the invalidation of something which was once in effect. Cancel means to put an end to something, or stop it from happening. Nullify means to make something legally invalid or to void it. Invalidate means to annul something that was once considered valid. These synonyms can help add variety to writing and avoid repetition of the same word.

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Usage examples for Abrogates

According to him, entrance into the army abrogates the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
"Anarchism and Other Essays"
Emma Goldman
The most tyrannical husband immediately abrogates his authority when he sees the symptoms of this frenzy developing in her.
"The Co-Citizens"
Corra Harris
Mr. Clay is lawyer enough to know that even a senatorial hypothesis as to what must have been the understanding of Maryland and Virginia about congressional exercise of constitutional power, abrogates no grant, and that to plead it in a court of law, would be of small service except to jostle "their honors'" gravity!
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society

Famous quotes with Abrogates

  • Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And the higher the pretensions of such power, the more dangerous I think it both to the rulers and to the subjects. Hence Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated, and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations. And since Theocracy is the worst, the nearer any government approaches to Theocracy the worse it will be. A metaphysic, held by the rulers with the force of a religion, is a bad sign. It forbids them, like the inquisitor, to admit any grain of truth or good in their opponents, it abrogates the ordinary rules of morality, and it gives a seemingly high, super-personal sanction to all the very ordinary human passions by which, like other men, the rulers will frequently be actuated. In other words, it forbids wholesome doubt...
    C. S. Lewis

Related words: abrogation, abrogated, abrogates, abrogating

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