ABDICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abdication mean? 

• ABDICATION (noun)
  The noun ABDICATION has 2 senses:

1. a formal resignation and renunciation of powers

2. the act of abdicating

  Familiarity information: ABDICATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABDICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A formal resignation and renunciation of powers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

abdication; stepping down

Hypernyms ("abdication" is a kind of...):

resignation (the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.))

Derivation:

abdicate (give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of abdicating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

abdication; stepping down

Hypernyms ("abdication" is a kind of...):

resignation (a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign)

Derivation:

abdicate (give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations)

 Context examples 

She could not do so, without comparing herself with Miss Larolles, the inimitable Miss Larolles; but still she did it, and not with much happier effect; though by what seemed prosperity in the shape of an early abdication in her next neighbours, she found herself at the very end of the bench before the concert closed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)