n.(法律、制度、习俗等的)废除，废止

1. The churches, as everyone knows, opposed the abolition of slavery as long as they dared.
众所周知，教会过去尽量反对废除奴隶制。
2. Few people would not exult at the abolition of slavery.
奴隶制被废除了，人们无不为之欢乐鼓舞。
3. It became obsolete with the virtual abolition of imprisonment for debt in 1880.
随着1880年负债监禁的彻底废除，它就失去了效用。
4. Some people seemed to believe that with the abolition of the emperor, China had become a democratic country and that hence forth everything would take its proper course.
有人以为没有皇帝,中国就算是民主国家,百事大吉，天下太平了。