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Another word for revocation

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revocation

n.

annulment, repeal, repudiation; see cancellation, retraction.

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Another word for revocation

noun

The act of reversing or annulling:

recall, repeal, rescission, reversal. See continue, law

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His advocacy of anti-slavery principles, then frowned upon by the Methodist authorities, aroused opposition, and eventually resulted in his trial for heresy and the revocation of his licence.
From his ascetic standpoint the revocation of the edict could only pander to drunkenness and immorality.
He belonged to a French Protestant family, and was compelled to take refuge in England at the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in 1685.
After the revocation of the edict of Nantes he fled to Rotterdam (November 1685), and in 1686 was appointed chaplain to the princess of Dessau, Henrietta Catherine of Orange.
This encouraged the French Jansenist bishops to press for the revocation of the bull Unigenitus; but the pope commanded its unreserved acceptance.

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