#abolition
- Abolition / Repeal — The act of abolishing and its result; the official abolition, annulment, suppression, or repeal of a law, custom, public institution, or legal social status, through an act of public authority.
- Abolition / Legal repeal — A secondary form or legal variant of the noun 'abolițiune'. It denotes an act of clemency or a criminal law measure through which the sovereign legislative power abolishes, annuls, or prohibits a law, penalty, or judicial procedure. In certain historical legal systems, it represented a form of early amnesty that halted the initiation or continuation of criminal prosecution.
- Abolitionism — A social, political, and ideological movement that emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe and the Americas, initially aimed at the official abolition of slavery and human trafficking. In a broader and modern sense, the term denotes any current of opinion or doctrine advocating for the permanent suppression of laws, institutions, or practices considered inhumane or outdated, such as the death penalty or the classical penitentiary system.
- Abolitionist — A person who adheres to abolitionism, actively campaigning for the dissolution of an inhumane or outdated law, institution, or practice (such as slavery, the death penalty, or the carceral system). As an adjective, it qualifies anything pertaining to abolitionism or specific to the struggle for suppressing these oppressive systems.
- Abolitionist (feminine) — The feminine form of the term 'aboliționist'. It denotes a woman who adheres to the principles of abolitionism and actively campaigns for the dissolution of oppressive or outdated laws, institutions, or practices (such as slavery or capital punishment). As an adjective, it qualifies a feminine action, publication, or entity associated with this movement.
- Abnégation / Abolition (archaic variant) — The complete, etymological, and traditional noun form denoting the official abolition, annulment, suppression, or repeal of a law, custom, institution, or legal social status, through an act of public authority. In modern Romanian, it is used less frequently than its shortened variant 'abolire' or the legal variant 'aboliție'.
- Abolitionism — A doctrine, attitude, or social and political movement that opposes slavery and campaigns for its complete abolition; abolitionism. This ideological current, heavily developed during the 18th and 19th centuries, challenged the moral, legal, and economic legitimacy of holding human beings as property, laying the foundation for international treaties on human rights and fundamental civil liberties.
- Abolitionist — Opposed to slavery, campaigning for the abolition of the slave system, or belonging to the anti-slavery movement; abolitionist. As an adjective, it describes laws, civic societies, publications, or discourses aimed at banning human exploitation. As a noun, it denotes a person or political activist actively fighting for the liberation of slaves and guaranteeing equal civil rights.
- Abolitionist — The feminine form of antisclavagist; a woman, organization, ideology, or legislative measure demonstrating opposition to slavery and campaigning for its complete abolition. The term applies to civic structures and abolitionist networks that historically fought for social emancipation, the liberation of enslaved individuals, and the legal recognition of inalienable civil rights.