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abdication

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ab·di·cate  (bd-kt)
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-bl) adj.
abdi·cation n.
abdi·cator n.
abdication
the formal act by a regent of resigning from his position.
See also: Renunciation
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.abdicationabdication - a formal resignation and renunciation of powers
stepping down
resignation - the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)
2.abdicationabdication - 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.
2. giving up, yielding, surrender, waiving, renunciation, cession, relinquishment, abjuration
Translations
abdication [æbdɪˈkeɪʃən] n → abdicación f
abdication [æbdɪˈkeɪʃən] n → abdication f
abdication [æbdɪˈkeɪʃən] abdicate n (see vb) → Verzicht m; Abdankung f
abdication [æbdɪˈkeɪʃən] n → 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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