unabolish

English

Etymology

un- + abolish

Verb

unabolish (third-person singular simple present unabolishes, present participle unabolishing, simple past and past participle unabolished)

  1. (rare) To reinstate (a law or institution which had been abolished).
    • 2001 May 14, in The New Yorker, reprinted in 2005 in Politics: Observations & Arguments, 1966-2004 (Hendrik Hertzberg):
      Once a parliament abolishes capital punishment, it's very hard to unabolish it. And the European Union has made abolition a de facto condition of membership.
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