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In literature, the term abrogate is often employed to signify the deliberate annulment or cancellation of laws, rights, or obligations. Authors use it to evoke significant political shifts and the overthrow of established customs, as seen when statutes or royal prerogatives are dissolved ([1], [2], [3]). In some narratives, characters debate moral duties and the weight of tradition, discussing how personal or governmental actions can effectively abrogate longstanding mandates ([4], [5], [6]). Additionally, the word appears in theological discourse, contrasting divine invariance with the mutable ordinances of earthly systems ([7], [8], [9]). This varied usage highlights abrogate’s power to encapsulate the concepts of removal and transformation in both legal and existential contexts.
  1. [236] To abrogate the Statutes of Clarendon, and all bad customs introduced during his reign.
    — from Life of Thomas à Becket by Henry Hart Milman
  2. Of course the king had power to abrogate the present law!
    — from The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
  3. He proposed, August 4, 1789, to abrogate feudal rights, and June 15, 1790, to abolish the nobility.
    — from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
  4. What can be done to him?’ said Arthurine, not looking at all as if she would like to abrogate capital punishment.
    — from More Bywords by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
  5. Such an event would abrogate my obligations to silence, and would impose upon me the opposite duty of speaking."
    — from The Missing Bride by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
  6. You must conquer every passion, abrogate every desire.
    — from Seekers after God by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
  7. "What He pleaseth will God abrogate or confirm; for with Him is the source of revelation."
    — from The Faith of Islam by Edward Sell
  8. must God abrogate his holy law, because the creature hath slighted it?
    — from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock
  9. Christ does not abrogate law, but by his own life and sacrifice first satisfies its conditions.
    — from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, March 1883 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. by Chautauqua Institution

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