Usually means: Renunciation of power by a ruler.
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  1. abdication: Merriam-Webster
  2. abdication: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abdication: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. abdication: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. abdication: Wiktionary
  8. abdication: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Abdication, abdication: Dictionary.com
  10. abdication: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Abdication, The Abdication: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Abdication: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. abdication: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. abdication: Rhymezone
  15. Abdication: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. abdication: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  18. abdication: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. abdication: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. abdication: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. abdication: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. abdication: Merriam-Webster

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  1. abdication: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. abdication: Legal dictionary

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  1. abdication: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abdication)

noun:  (obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child.
noun:  The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.
noun:  The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power.
noun:  (obsolete, law) The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.
noun:  (obsolete) The action of being deposed from the seat of power.

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