Present participle; the ongoing action of ending or completely removing something, especially an unfair practice or law.
From abolish plus the present participle suffix -ing, which in English derives from Old English -ing and -ung, creating verbal nouns and continuous forms.
The word 'abolishing' appeared thousands of times in 19th-century newspapers and political speeches, and linguists can track how public attitudes shifted by analyzing which words appeared alongside 'abolishing' in historical texts.
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