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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ab-di-key-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌæb dɪˈkeɪ ʃən |
Définition of abdication
Origin :- 1550s, "a disowning," from Latin abdicationem (nominative abdicatio) "renunciation, abdication," noun of action from past participle stem of abdicare (see abdicate); sense of "resignation of sovereignty" is from 1680s.
- noun relinquishment
- There had been a great reverse of fortune, an abdication, and a flight.
- Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- It is the act of abdication, George—the moment of dethronement, that I could not face.
- Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
- If you find that I am in the wrong my abdication shall be at your service.
- Extract from : « The Traitors » by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
- The fundamental condition of life is the innate heat, the abdication of which is death.
- Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
- They offered Italy to me as the price of my abdication: I refused it.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I » by Fleury de Chaboulon.
- There he received the news of the taking of Paris, and the abdication of Napoleon.
- Extract from : « Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. » by Josiah Quincy
- We can't fire him, we don't dare to approach him to suggest his abdication.
- Extract from : « Trail's End » by George W. Ogden
- By the abdication of a doubtful claim she reigned absolute in her own dominion.
- Extract from : « The King's Mirror » by Anthony Hope
- For I had gone to his bedside fresh from signing my abdication.
- Extract from : « The King's Mirror » by Anthony Hope
- If they do not proclaim him, my abdication must be null, and not made.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II » by Fleury de Chaboulon.
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