ABROGATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abrogation mean? 

• ABROGATION (noun)
  The noun ABROGATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation

  Familiarity information: ABROGATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABROGATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

abrogation; annulment; repeal

Hypernyms ("abrogation" is a kind of...):

cancellation (the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abrogation"):

derogation ((law) the partial taking away of the effectiveness of a law; a partial repeal or abolition of a law)

vacation (the act of making something legally void)

recall (the act of removing an official by petition)

revocation (the act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously done)

Derivation:

abrogate (revoke formally)

 Context examples 

HPV-16 E7 12-20 peptide vaccine may elicit a specific CD8 T-cell response to the E7 oncogene protein, thereby inhibiting the abrogation of p53 and pRb function and thus prevent tumorigenesis.

(HPV 16 E7:12-20 Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)