abdicationn.

Brit.

/ˌabdᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌæbdəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/

Origin: Probably a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin abdicātiōn-, abdicātiō.

Etymology: Probably < classical Latin abdicātiōn-, abdicātiō resignation, action of disowning or disinheriting < abdicāt- , past participial stem of abdicāre abdicate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French abdicacion , Middle French, French abdication action of surrendering one's possessions (1378), renunciation of a vice or sin (a1406), action of surrendering a right or responsibility (1584), action of disowning or disinheriting one's child (1605), Spanish abdicación (1648 or earlier), Portuguese abdicação , Italian abdicazione renunciation (1363), renunciation of sovereignty (1655). Compare earlier abdicate v.

1. The action or practice of formally disowning or casting off a person, esp. one's child. Chiefly historical, with reference to ancient Greek and Roman law.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > rejection or non-acceptance

renunciation1418

rejectinga1425

reprobationa1425

rejectiona1464

abjection?1529

refute1535

abdication1552

abnegation1554

abrenunciation1557

recusancy1563

repudy1575

offcasting?1591

rejectment1599

defiancea1616

canvass1621

non-acceptation1622

repudiation1640

disacceptance1642

non-acceptance1647

disowning1656

discard1663

disownment1806

unacceptance1865

ding1949

negging1996

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Abdication, as when the father doth wyllyngly exclude the sonne from his inheritaunce, Abdicatio.

1622 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VI. N.T. iii. 379 A just abdication from thy fauour, and protection, and an interminable seisure by Satan.

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. ix. §7. 139 A Son also is freed from subjection on the same manner as a subject and servant are. For emancipation is the same thing with manumission, and abdication with banishment.

1853 W. Whewell tr. H. Grotius De Jure Belli I. ii. vii. 362 Amongst such evidence, the first place belongs to abdication of a son, which was practised by the Greeks, as exheredation..was by the Romans.

2004 Materiali & Discussioni per Analisi dei Testi Classici No. 53. 72 Twenty six out of the surviving hundred and fifty minor declamations of Quintilian deal with the abdication of a son, and two..of a daughter.

a. The renunciation, surrender, or giving up of a possession, right, responsibility, etc.; abandoning; putting aside. Also: an instance of any of these. Frequently with of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > renunciation

renunciation1399

renouncingc1400

disaccustoming1479

renouncementa1513

abjuration?1567

abjuring1567

abdication1571

renounsal1574

abjurement?1594

renounce1774

1571 W. Fulke Confut. Popishe Libelle (new ed.) f. 46^v Both men and women, made solemne vowes to the abdication of all proprietie in worldlie goodes and possessions.

1618 Bp. J. Hall Righteovs Mammon 45 Both in preparation of minde, and (when neede is) in a charitable abdication, harken to the Duties which God layes vpon you.

1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous 366 Which abdication of the earth, as none of their country.

1695 Anc. Const. Eng. 61 The doing of any act that is utterly inconsistent with the being or end of the thing for which it is ordained, is as true a renouncing, or abdication of that thing as if it were made in express words.

1764 Gentleman's & London Mag. Oct. 624/1 Nothing can be more inglorious than the abdication of the throne.

1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1815) XII. 323 He recommends an entire abdication for ever,..of all power and authority.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. iv. i. 233 He implored the Earl to aid his abdication of the throne.

1890 in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. (1900) 175/2 The abdication by the Radical party of its proper functions has an unfortunate tendency to foster..the microbe of sectionalism.

1920 Times 14 Aug. 14/5 The practice of spiritualism as a cult involves the subordination of the intelligence and the will to unknown forces or personalities and, to that extent, an abdication of self-control.

1968 Listener 10 Oct. 460/2 It is very easy to write that the lesson of Munich is that there are no lessons; but it comes perilously close to an abdication of the historian's responsibility.

1996 C. Lang in H. A. Veeser Confessions of Critics iv. 48 But I am also angry at my mother for her total abdication of self.

b. spec. The renunciation of high office or authority, esp. sovereignty; an instance of this.Formerly also used when there is only an implicit renunciation, as when a person's actions are considered incompatible with the holding of office.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > [noun] > abdication

resignationa1387

cessing1480

abdication1610

1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. viii. 272 The Popes colluded together without any sincere purpose of abdication.

1690 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) I. 441 They pitched upon Dereliction or Abdication, not that either of these were commensurate to the state of the business.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 2 After the defeat and abdication of Licinius, his victorious rival proceeded to lay the foundations of a city.

1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) Abdication, in general, is where a magistrate or person in office, renounces and gives up the same before the term of service is expired.

1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. iii. v. 262 What suicide is to a man, abdication is to a King.

1913 Classical Jrnl. 9 47 Cases of abdication under pressure were not uncommon. M. Claudius Glicia, dictator in 249 b.c., suffered this fate.

1954 C. R. Attlee As it Happened x. 86 The whole business of the Abdication was very unfortunate and undoubtedly affected for the time the prestige of the Monarchy.

2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 337/1 It now seemed possible that Nixon's abdication could be blamed by the take-no-prisoners New Right on Deep Throat.

†3. Deposition from office or authority; dethronement of a sovereign. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [noun]

off-puttinga1387

supplantationa1393

deposal1397

deposition1399

amotion1441

privation1444

subversion1470

deposing1480

dispointment1483

quietus est1530

cassing1550

deprivation1551

remove1553

destitution1554

depose1559

abdication1574

dismissionc1600

renvoy1600

displacement1611

deprivement1630

quietus1635

removal1645

deposure1648

displacing1655

cashierment1656

discarding1660

amoval1675

depriving1705

superannuation1722

separation1779

ouster1782

disestablishment1806

dismissal1849

epuration1883

deprival1886

purge1893

1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 661 There are thre principal partes which are exercised of them ioyntly & together, wherof the first is the election or choise, & the abdication or putting out of ecclesiastical officers.

1611 J. Barclay tr. W. Barclay Treat. Temporall Power Pope xxxvi. 195 in R. Sheldon Cert. Reasons Lawfulnesse Oath Allegiance As the Lord spake to Samuel touching Saul, so he should speake to the Pope by name, about the abdication of some certaine King, and of substituting an other in his place.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 57 in Justice Vindicated Who..had they been able, would have advanced the power of the Senate to the abdication of Cæsars.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. i. 15 The abdication and expulsion of him the Devil and his Angels.

†4. In marine insurance: the surrender of all rights to a ship or cargo to the underwriters in the case of loss; = abandonment n. 4. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > in compliance with demand

abandon1755

abdication1755

abandonment1787

cession1788

1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 38 A Ship is unfit to prosecute her Voyage, when an Abdication is made before the justice and Leave given to discharge her.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (chiefly in sense 2b), as abdication address, abdication speech, etc.

ΚΠ

1701 Remarks by Way of Answer to Char. Mod. Whig 18/1 He never was in any Ecclesiastical Commission,..and never opposed the Abdication Bill, when 'tis well known who did.

1786 Edinb. Mag. July 365/1 Among a vast number of valuable papers it contains the Abdication Speech of the Emperor.

1870 Glasgow Herald 29 June 4/1 The abdication address of Isabella of Spain is published this morning.

1892 Yorks. Herald 7 May 11/4 A crown and sceptre of flowers were presented to the Queen, who proceeded to mount the däis, after..the abdication speech had been delivered by the two ex-queens.

1936 Wall St. Jrnl. 10 Dec. 1/4 (headline) Abdication notice may come today.

1998 A. Goodman Kaaterskill Falls i. iv. 54 Her family in Manchester was strictly observant, but her mother, who spoke Yiddish, was a collector of China teacups and an avid royal-watcher who wept to hear the king's abdication address on the radio.

2009 B. Kirshenbaum Scenic Route viii. 119 She knew the abdication speech by heart, which she would recite while vacuuming the carpet.

C2.

abdication crisis n. the constitutional crisis which culminated in the abdication of Edward VIII from the throne of the United Kingdom in 1936, as a result of his determination to marry Wallis Simpson, an American woman who had divorced her first husband and was about to divorce her second.The marriage was opposed by the British government, as well as representatives of the dominions of the British Empire, reflecting public opinion and strong opposition from the Church of England. It was believed that the King's marriage to a divorcee would be incompatible with his role as the head of the Church of England.

ΚΠ

1936 Oelwein (Iowa) Daily Reg. 12 Dec. 1/4 There were cheers as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the squarebuilt Worchester [sic] squire, hero of the abdication crisis, and other cabinet ministers arrived.

1962 M. Craton Hist. Bahamas xxi. 274 Perhaps embittered by his treatment in some quarters during and after the abdication crisis, the Duke did not relish criticism in the local press.

1994 A. Roberts Eminent Churchillians (1995) ii. 58 For all his much-vaunted friendship with the Prince of Wales, Mountbatten found that discretion was the better part of valour during the Abdication crisis.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	abdication
释义	abdicationn. Brit. /ˌabdᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌæbdəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ Origin: Probably a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin abdicātiōn-, abdicātiō. Etymology: Probably < classical Latin abdicātiōn-, abdicātiō resignation, action of disowning or disinheriting < abdicāt- , past participial stem of abdicāre abdicate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French abdicacion , Middle French, French abdication action of surrendering one's possessions (1378), renunciation of a vice or sin (a1406), action of surrendering a right or responsibility (1584), action of disowning or disinheriting one's child (1605), Spanish abdicación (1648 or earlier), Portuguese abdicação , Italian abdicazione renunciation (1363), renunciation of sovereignty (1655). Compare earlier abdicate v. 1. The action or practice of formally disowning or casting off a person, esp. one's child. Chiefly historical, with reference to ancient Greek and Roman law. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > rejection or non-acceptance renunciation1418 rejectinga1425 reprobationa1425 rejectiona1464 abjection?1529 refute1535 abdication1552 abnegation1554 abrenunciation1557 recusancy1563 repudy1575 offcasting?1591 rejectment1599 defiancea1616 canvass1621 non-acceptation1622 repudiation1640 disacceptance1642 non-acceptance1647 disowning1656 discard1663 disownment1806 unacceptance1865 ding1949 negging1996 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Abdication, as when the father doth wyllyngly exclude the sonne from his inheritaunce, Abdicatio. 1622 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VI. N.T. iii. 379 A just abdication from thy fauour, and protection, and an interminable seisure by Satan. 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. ix. §7. 139 A Son also is freed from subjection on the same manner as a subject and servant are. For emancipation is the same thing with manumission, and abdication with banishment. 1853 W. Whewell tr. H. Grotius De Jure Belli I. ii. vii. 362 Amongst such evidence, the first place belongs to abdication of a son, which was practised by the Greeks, as exheredation..was by the Romans. 2004 Materiali & Discussioni per Analisi dei Testi Classici No. 53. 72 Twenty six out of the surviving hundred and fifty minor declamations of Quintilian deal with the abdication of a son, and two..of a daughter. 2. a. The renunciation, surrender, or giving up of a possession, right, responsibility, etc.; abandoning; putting aside. Also: an instance of any of these. Frequently with of. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > renunciation renunciation1399 renouncingc1400 disaccustoming1479 renouncementa1513 abjuration?1567 abjuring1567 abdication1571 renounsal1574 abjurement?1594 renounce1774 1571 W. Fulke Confut. Popishe Libelle (new ed.) f. 46^v Both men and women, made solemne vowes to the abdication of all proprietie in worldlie goodes and possessions. 1618 Bp. J. Hall Righteovs Mammon 45 Both in preparation of minde, and (when neede is) in a charitable abdication, harken to the Duties which God layes vpon you. 1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous 366 Which abdication of the earth, as none of their country. 1695 Anc. Const. Eng. 61 The doing of any act that is utterly inconsistent with the being or end of the thing for which it is ordained, is as true a renouncing, or abdication of that thing as if it were made in express words. 1764 Gentleman's & London Mag. Oct. 624/1 Nothing can be more inglorious than the abdication of the throne. 1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1815) XII. 323 He recommends an entire abdication for ever,..of all power and authority. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. iv. i. 233 He implored the Earl to aid his abdication of the throne. 1890 in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. (1900) 175/2 The abdication by the Radical party of its proper functions has an unfortunate tendency to foster..the microbe of sectionalism. 1920 Times 14 Aug. 14/5 The practice of spiritualism as a cult involves the subordination of the intelligence and the will to unknown forces or personalities and, to that extent, an abdication of self-control. 1968 Listener 10 Oct. 460/2 It is very easy to write that the lesson of Munich is that there are no lessons; but it comes perilously close to an abdication of the historian's responsibility. 1996 C. Lang in H. A. Veeser Confessions of Critics iv. 48 But I am also angry at my mother for her total abdication of self. b. spec. The renunciation of high office or authority, esp. sovereignty; an instance of this.Formerly also used when there is only an implicit renunciation, as when a person's actions are considered incompatible with the holding of office. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > [noun] > abdication resignationa1387 cessing1480 abdication1610 1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. viii. 272 The Popes colluded together without any sincere purpose of abdication. 1690 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) I. 441 They pitched upon Dereliction or Abdication, not that either of these were commensurate to the state of the business. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 2 After the defeat and abdication of Licinius, his victorious rival proceeded to lay the foundations of a city. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) Abdication, in general, is where a magistrate or person in office, renounces and gives up the same before the term of service is expired. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. iii. v. 262 What suicide is to a man, abdication is to a King. 1913 Classical Jrnl. 9 47 Cases of abdication under pressure were not uncommon. M. Claudius Glicia, dictator in 249 b.c., suffered this fate. 1954 C. R. Attlee As it Happened x. 86 The whole business of the Abdication was very unfortunate and undoubtedly affected for the time the prestige of the Monarchy. 2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 337/1 It now seemed possible that Nixon's abdication could be blamed by the take-no-prisoners New Right on Deep Throat. †3. Deposition from office or authority; dethronement of a sovereign. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [noun] off-puttinga1387 supplantationa1393 deposal1397 deposition1399 amotion1441 privation1444 subversion1470 deposing1480 dispointment1483 quietus est1530 cassing1550 deprivation1551 remove1553 destitution1554 depose1559 abdication1574 dismissionc1600 renvoy1600 displacement1611 deprivement1630 quietus1635 removal1645 deposure1648 displacing1655 cashierment1656 discarding1660 amoval1675 depriving1705 superannuation1722 separation1779 ouster1782 disestablishment1806 dismissal1849 epuration1883 deprival1886 purge1893 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 661 There are thre principal partes which are exercised of them ioyntly & together, wherof the first is the election or choise, & the abdication or putting out of ecclesiastical officers. 1611 J. Barclay tr. W. Barclay Treat. Temporall Power Pope xxxvi. 195 in R. Sheldon Cert. Reasons Lawfulnesse Oath Allegiance As the Lord spake to Samuel touching Saul, so he should speake to the Pope by name, about the abdication of some certaine King, and of substituting an other in his place. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 57 in Justice Vindicated Who..had they been able, would have advanced the power of the Senate to the abdication of Cæsars. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. i. 15 The abdication and expulsion of him the Devil and his Angels. †4. In marine insurance: the surrender of all rights to a ship or cargo to the underwriters in the case of loss; = abandonment n. 4. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > in compliance with demand abandon1755 abdication1755 abandonment1787 cession1788 1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 38 A Ship is unfit to prosecute her Voyage, when an Abdication is made before the justice and Leave given to discharge her. Compounds C1. General attributive (chiefly in sense 2b), as abdication address, abdication speech, etc. ΚΠ 1701 Remarks by Way of Answer to Char. Mod. Whig 18/1 He never was in any Ecclesiastical Commission,..and never opposed the Abdication Bill, when 'tis well known who did. 1786 Edinb. Mag. July 365/1 Among a vast number of valuable papers it contains the Abdication Speech of the Emperor. 1870 Glasgow Herald 29 June 4/1 The abdication address of Isabella of Spain is published this morning. 1892 Yorks. Herald 7 May 11/4 A crown and sceptre of flowers were presented to the Queen, who proceeded to mount the däis, after..the abdication speech had been delivered by the two ex-queens. 1936 Wall St. Jrnl. 10 Dec. 1/4 (headline) Abdication notice may come today. 1998 A. Goodman Kaaterskill Falls i. iv. 54 Her family in Manchester was strictly observant, but her mother, who spoke Yiddish, was a collector of China teacups and an avid royal-watcher who wept to hear the king's abdication address on the radio. 2009 B. Kirshenbaum Scenic Route viii. 119 She knew the abdication speech by heart, which she would recite while vacuuming the carpet. C2. abdication crisis n. the constitutional crisis which culminated in the abdication of Edward VIII from the throne of the United Kingdom in 1936, as a result of his determination to marry Wallis Simpson, an American woman who had divorced her first husband and was about to divorce her second.The marriage was opposed by the British government, as well as representatives of the dominions of the British Empire, reflecting public opinion and strong opposition from the Church of England. It was believed that the King's marriage to a divorcee would be incompatible with his role as the head of the Church of England. ΚΠ 1936 Oelwein (Iowa) Daily Reg. 12 Dec. 1/4 There were cheers as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the squarebuilt Worchester [sic] squire, hero of the abdication crisis, and other cabinet ministers arrived. 1962 M. Craton Hist. Bahamas xxi. 274 Perhaps embittered by his treatment in some quarters during and after the abdication crisis, the Duke did not relish criticism in the local press. 1994 A. Roberts Eminent Churchillians (1995) ii. 58 For all his much-vaunted friendship with the Prince of Wales, Mountbatten found that discretion was the better part of valour during the Abdication crisis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1552
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