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Abdication

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Abdication'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/abdication.html. 1828.