abdication

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the formal act of giving up a throne or other position of sovereign power

   The king's abdication placed his daughter on the throne.

2. 2
   noun

   a failure or refusal to fulfill a responsibility

   Ignoring the crisis was an abdication of leadership.

From Latin abdicatio, ‘a renunciation,’ derived from abdicare, ‘to disown or renounce,’ and attested in English from the sixteenth century.

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