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Abrogate V Repeal Avoid One's Duty Doom Gift

Word abrogate
Definition v. To repeal, take away; to avoid one's duty.
Sentence The doom or gift of God, of mortality, the gods of course cannot abrogate, but the Númenóreans have a great span of life.
Source The Silmarillion, p. xviii

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