abdication

English

Etymology

First attested in 1552. From Middle French abdication, from Latin abdicātiō (“renunciation”), from abdicō.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

abdication (countable and uncountable, plural abdications)

  1. (obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.][2]
  2. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. [First attested in the early 17th century.][2]
  3. The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power. [First attested in the late 17th century.][2]
    abdication of the throne, government, power, authority
    the king's abdication
  4. (obsolete, law) The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment. [Attested only in the mid 18th century.][2]
  5. (obsolete) The action of being deposed from the seat of power. [Attested only in the mid 17th century.][2]

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References
  1. Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 2
  2. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abdication”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abdicātiōnem.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ab.di.ka.sjɔ̃/
  • audio(file)

Noun

abdication f (plural abdications)

  1. abdication

Descendants
  • → Bulgarian: абдика́ция (abdikácija)

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

abdication (plural abdicationes)

  1. abdication
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