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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Abdication \Ab`di*ca"tion\, n. [L. abdicatio: cf F.
abdication.]
The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office,
dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary
renunciation of sovereign power; as abdication of the
throne, government, power, authority.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
abdication
n : a formal resignation and renunciation of powers [syn: {stepping
down}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the
high temperature of the throne.
Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication
Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation.
For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her:
She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her
To History she'll be no royal riddle --
Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle.
G.J.
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