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| − | These two words can be confused by typing errors, which | + | These two words can be confused by typing errors, which [[spellchecker]]s will not find. Writers sometimes confuse them in their heads, as neither is in common use. |
| − | To '''abrogate''' something, usually a law, treaty or some other kind of formal agreement or rule, is to repeal it or | + | * To '''abrogate''' something, usually a law, treaty or some other kind of formal agreement or rule, is to repeal it or 'annul' it - to put it into disuse, or to stop it applying. "During the present emergency, some safeguards of individual liberty will be '''abrogated'''." |
| − | To '''arrogate''' is to take (usually powers) to oneself; to assume. | + | * To '''arrogate''' is to take (usually powers) to oneself; to assume. "The Dictator '''arrogated''' all legislative power into his own hands." "The leader of the new party '''arrogated''' all police business to himself." It is related etymologically to the adjective arrogant and the noun arrogance, although the uses and contexts of these two words have drifted slightly away from those of arrogate. |
| − | Because both these words are used in political contexts, and both have a meaning connected with changes in the application of power, they are easy to confuse. If you study Politics, | + | Because both these words are used in political contexts, and both have a meaning connected with changes in the application of power, they are easy to confuse. If you study Politics, don't be confused! |
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Latest revision as of 12:21, 25 October 2016
These two words can be confused by typing errors, which spellcheckers will not find. Writers sometimes confuse them in their heads, as neither is in common use.
- To abrogate something, usually a law, treaty or some other kind of formal agreement or rule, is to repeal it or 'annul' it - to put it into disuse, or to stop it applying. "During the present emergency, some safeguards of individual liberty will be abrogated."
- To arrogate is to take (usually powers) to oneself; to assume. "The Dictator arrogated all legislative power into his own hands." "The leader of the new party arrogated all police business to himself." It is related etymologically to the adjective arrogant and the noun arrogance, although the uses and contexts of these two words have drifted slightly away from those of arrogate.
Because both these words are used in political contexts, and both have a meaning connected with changes in the application of power, they are easy to confuse. If you study Politics, don't be confused!
- For more on a group of words typically used in rather formal, often legal or political, contexts which have a common root - all derive from the Latin verb rogāre - see Derogation, prorogation, etc.
