Results for abdicate

Definitions of abdicate:

part of speech: noun

ABDICATION.

part of speech: verb

To give up a right; to renounce an office of power.

part of speech: verb transitive

To renounce or give up ( a high office).

Usage examples for abdicate:

• Reason, conscience, all must abdicate and all submit.... "Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History", Auguste Sabatier

• He says that to retire is to abdicate his position in public life; that it was Lord Rigglesworth's duty to stand by a colleague to the last; that every Minister makes it a point of honor to defend a subordinate; and that-" " I only half follow you. "The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly", Charles James Lever