Repeal vs Rescinding - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between repeal and rescinding

is that repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul while rescinding is present participle of lang=en.

is an act or instance of repealing.

(en verb)

To cancel, invalidate, annul.

to repeal a law

To recall; to summon (a person) again.

* Shakespeare

The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.

To suppress; to repel.

* Milton

Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

* annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

(en noun)

An act or instance of repealing.

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