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
(in the US) the emancipation of slaves, by the Emancipation Proclamation (1863, ratified 1865)
(in British territories) The ending of the slave trade (1807) or of slavery (1833)
The abolition of something such as a system or practice is its formal ending. the abolition of slavery in Brazil and the Caribbean. when a law or a system is officially ended abolition of
the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery); "the abolition of capital punishment