abrogation

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I wouldn’t be surprised if Westside residents who lost everything try to recall the mayor for her supposed abrogation of duty.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

He added: "It in no way calls for the abrogation of anybody else's rights."

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024

In the new ruling, the judges said that Oklahoma’s 1910 public nuisance law typically referred to an abrogation of a public right like access to roads or clean water or air.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2021

So a lot of this has been an abrogation by Congress.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020

The abrogation of the law requiring circumcision was, therefore, the abrogation of the whole of the Mosaic legislation.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green