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Abdicate
"Abdicate" in a Sentence (18 examples)
The king must abdicate.
The Emperor Akihito of Japan has announced his intention to abdicate.
The king was forced to abdicate.
I am prepared to abdicate.
The king didn't abdicate.
I abdicate.
Edmundo refused to abdicate.
The emperor wants to abdicate.
The king had to abdicate.
You don't need to abdicate at all, Your Majesty.
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[W]e were legally call'd by his Majeſties writ to give our Attendance in Parliament, […] if we did not, we ſhould betray the Truſt committed to us by his Majeſtie, and ſhamefully betray and abdicate the due right both of our ſelves and Succeſſours.
to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy
Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
The cross-bearers abdicated their service.
He abdicates all right to be his own governor.
The understanding abdicates its functions.
Although the 1970s ushered in a culture of relative moral freedom, the courts refused to abdicate their role of custodians of public morality.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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