what does the word Abdication mean?

Answer 1

Abdication (from the Latin abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one) is the act of renouncing and resigning from a formal office, especially from the supreme office of state. In Roman law the term was also applied to the disowning of a family member, as the disinheriting of a son. The term commonly applies to monarchs. A similar term for an elected or appointed official is resignation.

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Answer 2

Abdication (from the Latin abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one) is the act of renouncing and resigning from a formal office, especially from the supreme office of state. In Roman law the term was also applied to the disowning of a family member, as the disinheriting of a son. The term commonly applies to monarchs. A similar term for an elected or appointed official is resignation.

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Answer 3

Resignation from a position of lifelong authority before death.

Usually used about a King or Emperor, but also some religious leaders, especially the Popes.

It has been extended to resigning from any high office, but the usual word for elected officials is just 'resignation'.

By extension, it means to surrender or give up any sort of responsibility for something. Like:
"Columnists say that the President's decision to allow Congress to decide whether or not US troops stay in Iraq is an abdication of the duties of his office!"

Answer 4

Abdication (from the Latin abdicatio disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one), the act whereby a person in office renounces and gives up the same before the expiry of the time for which it is held. In Roman law, the term is especially applied to the disowning of a member of a family, as the disinheriting of a son, but in more recent times, the word is seldom used except in the sense of surrendering the supreme power in a state.

Answer 5

Abdication (from the Latin abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one) is the act of renouncing and resigning from a formal office, especially from the supreme office of state. In Roman law the term was also applied to the disowning of a family member, as the disinheriting of a son. The term commonly applies to monarchs. A similar term for an elected or appointed official is resignation

Answer 6

Hi....Abdication means the act or state of renunciation, To relinquish power or responsibility formally.
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Answer 7

It means a formal resignation and renunciation of powers

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Answer 8

*Abdicate - Give up, renounce, a high office, authority or control, responsibility.

Answer 9

to give up ur right to something out of ur own free will...used mostly in royal sense...like the crown prince abdicated his throne...synonymous with renounce...

Answer 10

abdicate (²b"d´-k³t") v.
abdicated abdicating
1. To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally.
[Latin abdic³re, disclaim.]
-- ab"dica"tion n. -- ab"dica"tor n.