vbl. sb. [f. ABROGATE v. + -ING1.] The act or process of repealing, annulling, or authoritatively abolishing; abrogation. (Now mostly gerundial.)

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1577.  trans. Bullinger, Decades (1592), 410. The abrogating of the lawe consisteth in this that followeth.

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1643.  Milton, Divorce (1851), Introd. 9. We have an expresse law of God … whereof our Saviour with a solemn threat forbid the abrogating.

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1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., 103. The nulling of the Authority of S. Paul’s writings were the abrogating of the very Law of Christ.

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Mod.  Before abrogating the law.

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