What is the difference between revoke and repeal?
revoke | repeal | Synonyms |
To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
(obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
(obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
* South
The act of revoking in a game of cards.
A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.
To cancel, invalidate, annul.
To recall; to summon (a person) again.
* Shakespeare
To suppress; to repel.
* Milton
Repeal is a synonym of revoke.
In transitive terms the difference between revoke and repeal
is that revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing while repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul.revoke
English
Verb
- Your driver's license will be revoked .
- The faint sprite he did revoke again, / To her frail mansion of morality.
- [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke .
- (Spenser)
- A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memories to his conscience.
Noun
(en noun)repeal
English
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- Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.