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Abdication Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Abdication
(n.)
The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.
(n.)
The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.
| WordNet 2.0 |
abdication
Noun
1. a formal resignation and renunciation of powers
(synonym) stepping down
(hypernym) resignation
(derivation) abdicate, renounce
2. the act of abdicating
(synonym) stepping down
(hypernym) resignation
(derivation) abdicate, renounce
Noun
1. a formal resignation and renunciation of powers
(synonym) stepping down
(hypernym) resignation
(derivation) abdicate, renounce
2. the act of abdicating
(synonym) stepping down
(hypernym) resignation
(derivation) abdicate, renounce
| The Devil's Dictionary |
ABDICATION
Abdication, (n.)
An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.
Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication
Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation.
For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her:
She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her.
To History she'll be no royal riddle --
Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle.
G.J.
Abdication, (n.)
An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.
Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication
Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation.
For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her:
She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her.
To History she'll be no royal riddle --
Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle.
G.J.
| hEnglish - advanced version |
abdication
abdication
\ab`di*ca"tion\ (&?;), n. [l. abdicatio: cf. f. abdication.] the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.
abdication
\ab`di*ca"tion\ (&?;), n. [l. abdicatio: cf. f. abdication.] the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.
Abdication Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Abdication
Abdication (from the Latin abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one) is the act of renouncing and resigning from a formal office, especially from the supreme office of state. In Roman law the term was also applied to the disowning of a family member, as the disinheriting of a son. The term commonly applies to monarchs, or those who have been formally crowned. A similar term for an elected or appointed official is resignation.
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