extirpation

noun

extirpation

noun

Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin exstirpātiō.

1

The act of extirpating or uprooting.

it aims at the correction of our manners, and extirpation of our vices1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 34:

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