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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1385}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɹəˈpiːl/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|repelen]], [[bor|xno|repeler]], an alteration of [[m|fro|rapeler|t=to call back, revoke]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from [[m|fro|re-|t=back]] and [[m|fro|apeler|t=to call]] (see [[appeal]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To revoke or annul: about 1385, in Chaucer's ''Troilus and Criseyde'', in Barnhart, the late 14th century in Etymonline;^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) the OED dates it to the 14th century.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Trench notes that to repeal was to recall, and was once used far more widely, of people recalled from banishment (Shakespeare) and of doubts dispelled (Milton);^(Trench 1859) it is now used almost only of laws.^(Trench 1859)^(AHD) The noun first meant a recall, as from exile, in 1483 (Caxton),^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) and the act of repealing a law from about 1500.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) In Irish history, Repeal was the proposed dissolution of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, from 1831.^(OED 1989)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1385 – to revoke.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1483 – a recall from exile.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1500 – the repeal of a law.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1831 – Repeal of the Union.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[revoke]] or [[annul]] a law or decision officially.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(obsolete)'' To call back, especially from exile.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # The act of repealing.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[repealable]]

+ * [[repealer]]

+ * [[repealability]]

+ * [[unrepealed]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[appeal]]

+ * [[peal]]

+ * [[repel]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}