abdication

  • 21abdication — Synonyms and related words: abjuration, abjurement, cession, demission, deposal, dropping out, emeritus status, forced resignation, forswearing, handing over, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, retiral, retirement,… …

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  • 22abdication — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A giving up of a possession, claim, or right: abandonment, demission, quitclaim, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, surrender, waiver. See KEEP …

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  • 23abdication — ab·di·ca·tion || ‚æbdɪ keɪʃn n. act of relinquishing office or power, resignation …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 24abdication — n. Abdicating, resignation, surrender, renunciation, abandonment …

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  • 25abdication — n 1. resignation, resigning, renunciation, renouncing, retirement, retiring, abnegation, Archaic. demission. 2. relinquishment, abandonment, surrender, yielding, ceding, cession; transfer, transferral, transference, handing over. 3. repudiation,… …

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  • 26abdication — ab·di·ca·tion …

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  • 27abdication — See: abdicate …

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  • 28abdication — /æbdəˈkeɪʃən/ (say abduh kayshuhn) noun the act of abdicating; renunciation, especially of sovereign power …

  • 29abdication — nf. ABDIKACHON (Albanais, Villards Thônes) …

    Dictionnaire Français-Savoyard

  • 30abdication — The renunciation or abandonment by a person of an office, trust, or sovereignty to which he is entitled. The word is also frequently applied to a government, as where a government is said to abdicate its taxing power …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

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