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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

abdication (countable and uncountable, plural abdications)

1. (obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. [Attested from the mid 16^th century until the mid 17^th century.]^[2]
3. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]^[2]
4. The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power. [First attested in the late 17^th century.]^[2]

   abdication of the throne, government, power, authority

   the king’s abdication

5. (obsolete, law) The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment. [Attested only in the mid 18^th century.]^[2]
6. (obsolete) The action of being deposed from the seat of power. [Attested only in the mid 17^th century.]^[2]

• Abdication in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Borrowed from Latin abdicātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ab.di.ka.sjɔ̃/

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abdication f (plural abdications)

1. abdication

• abdiquer

• → Bulgarian: абдика́ция (abdikácija)
• → Dutch: abdicatie
  • Afrikaans: abdikasie
  • → Indonesian: abdikasi
    • → Malay: abdikasi

• “abdication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

abdication (plural abdicationes)

1. abdication