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The word "Abolish" comes from the following:

Middle French aboliss-, extended stem of abolir to destroy (1265 in Old French), to revoke, annul (1344), to abolish, destroy by means of a legal decision (1417)

classical Latin abolēscere to shrivel up, to be forgotten, to pass into disuse abolēre to destroy, obliterate, to put an end to

See also Catalan abolir (a1390), Spanish abolir (c1500), Portuguese abolir (1690), Italian abolire (a1540)

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