Supersession vs Repeal - What's the difference?
supersession | repeal |
The act of superseding; the fact of having been superseded.
*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
*:Two points became perfectly clear: one was that she was thinking of something very different from her present, her past, or her future relations with Hyacinth Robinson; the other was that he was superseded indeed. This was so completely the case that it did not even occur to her, it was evident, that the sense of supersession might be cruel to the young man.
*1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
*:Still excessively abundant, it was dressed in a manner of which the poor lady appeared not yet to have recognised the supersession , with a glossy braid, like a large diadem, on the top of the head [...].
To cancel, invalidate, annul.
To recall; to summon (a person) again.
* Shakespeare
To suppress; to repel.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between supersession and repeal
is that supersession is the act of superseding; the fact of having been superseded while repeal is an act or instance of repealing.As a verb repeal is
to cancel, invalidate, annul.supersession
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*repeal
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(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- Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.