Word Meanings - ABDICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABDICATION)

• Resignation
• Surrender
• relinquishment
• forsaking
• abandonment
• abdication
• renunciation
• submission
• acquiescence
• patience
• endurance

Related words: (words related to ABDICATION)

• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• FORSAKE
  1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30. 2. To renounce; to
• FORSAKER
  One who forsakes or deserts.
• RENUNCIATION
  Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right. Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment.
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• RELINQUISHMENT
  The act of relinquishing.
• SUBMISSION
  An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the
• ABDICATION
  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.
• SURRENDERER
  One who surrenders.
• PATIENCE
  A kind of dock , less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty,
• ENDURANCE
  1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott. 2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• ABANDONMENT
  The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. (more info) 1. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion;
• SURRENDEREE
  The person to whom a surrender is made. Mozley & W.
• ACQUIESCENCE
  1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction. Submission to an injury by the party
• SELF-RENUNCIATION
  The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.
• ABRENUNCIATION
  Absolute renunciation or repudiation. An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.
• UNPATIENCE
  Impatience.
• NONSUBMISSION
  Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
• PRENUNCIATION
  The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.
• NONACQUIESCENCE
  Refusal of acquiescence; failure to yield or comply.
• INSUBMISSION
  Want of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.
• IMPATIENCE
  The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. I then,