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means The act of formally putting an end to a law, system, or practice — most historically weighted when referring to the ending of slavery.

from From Latin abolitio, from abolere, meaning 'to destroy' or 'to abolish' — itself likely built from ab- (away) plus a root related to olere (to grow), so the buried image is of stopping something's growth entirely, killing it at the root rather than just trimming it back. The word entered English in the 1500s for the annulling of laws generally, but it was the 18th- and 19th-century movements to end slavery that gave 'abolition' its gravity, narrowing a dry legal term into a moral demand.