Extirpation vs Repeal - What's the difference?
extirpation | repeal |
The act of extirpating or uprooting.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 34.
To cancel, invalidate, annul.
To recall; to summon (a person) again.
* Shakespeare
To suppress; to repel.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between extirpation and repeal
is that extirpation is the act of extirpating or uprooting while repeal is an act or instance of repealing.As a verb repeal is
to cancel, invalidate, annul.extirpation
English
Noun
(en noun)- it aims at the correction of our manners, and extirpation of our vices
repeal
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Verb
(en verb)- to repeal a law
- The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
- Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.