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noun
the act or state of abdicating; renunciation.
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Abdication
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example Sentences
- Fowler's vision as an abdication of the commission's responsiblity for the public airwaves.
- Asad is aware of consequences of their own abdication and he has never decided to take this step.
- He is interpreting your allowing him up there as abdication of your pack leader status and he is taking advantage of it.
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Word Origin & History
abdication
1550s, "a disowning," from L. abdicationem (nom. abdicatio), noun of action from abdicare (see abdicate); sense of "resignation of sovereignty" is from 1688.
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