ABDICATE
abdicate
Verb
- To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
- To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
- To depose.
- To reject; to cast off; to discard.
- To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
- Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
- To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
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