abdication

ab·di·cate (

-k

)

v. ab·di·cat·ed, ab·di·cat·ing, ab·di·cates

v.tr.

To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally.

v.intr.

To relinquish formally a high office or responsibility.

[Latin abdicre, abdict-, to disclaim : ab-, away; see ab-¹ + dicre, to proclaim; see deik- in Indo-European roots.]

abdi·ca·ble (-k

-b

l) adj.

abdi·cation n.

abdi·cator n.

abdication

the formal act by a regent of resigning from his position.

See also: Renunciation

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Noun	1.	abdication - a formal resignation and renunciation of powers stepping down resignation - the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)
	2.	abdication - the act of abdicating stepping down resignation - a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; "he submitted his resignation as of next month"

abdication

noun

1. resignation, quitting, retirement, retiral (chiefly Scot.) the abdication of Edward VIII

2. giving up, yielding, surrender, waiving, renunciation, cession, relinquishment, abjuration Edward was titled Duke of Windsor after his abdication of the throne.

3. renunciation, giving up, surrender, abandonment, waiver, abnegation, relinquishment There had been a complete abdication of responsibility.

Translations

abdication [ˌæbdɪˈkeɪʃən] N

1. [of monarch] → abdicación f

2. [of responsibility, right] → renuncia f (of a)

abdication [ˌæbdɪˈkeɪʃ^ən] n

[monarch, king, queen] → abdication f

abdication

n (of monarch) → Abdankung f, → Abdikation f (dated geh); (of pope) → Verzicht m; his abdication of the throne → sein Verzicht auf den Thron

abdication [ˌæbdɪˈkeɪʃ/ən] n (of monarch) → abdicazione f

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What is proposed to me would be, in fact, almost an abdication, and an abdication requires reflection.

Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

There was in this voluntary abdication of his freewill, in this fancy submitting itself to another fancy, which suspects it not, a mixture of fantastic independence and blind obedience, something indescribable, intermediate between slavery and liberty, which pleased Gringoire,--a spirit essentially compound, undecided, and complex, holding the extremities of all extremes, incessantly suspended between all human propensities, and neutralizing one by the other.

Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context

Richard inherited after the death of his father, and England at the abdication of Richard.

Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

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