Meaning of extinguishment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
   countable, uncountable
2. The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“[…] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]”

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