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单词 abdicator
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abdicatorn.

Brit. /ˈabdᵻkeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈæbdəˌkeɪdər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: abdicate v., -or suffix.
Etymology: < abdicate v. + -or suffix.
1. A person who advocates, instigates, or participates in the abdication of another from a position or office. Obsolete.In quot. 1593: a person who has the authority to suspend or excommunicate another from the Church.
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1593 R. Bancroft Suruay Holy Discipline xvii. 191 They must bee abdicators and comforters, as they terme them.
1689 in R. Cox Hibernia Anglicana I. (end matter) In Answer to a seditious Letter from a (pretended) Loyal Member of the Church to a Relenting Abdicator.
1695 Whether Preserving Protestant Relig. Motive Late Revol. 22 Nor can his Majesty's Authority..be questioned by our Revolutioners and Abdicators themselves.
1709 J. Oldmixon Hist. Addr. vi. 172 The Dissenters got one Denomination more..that of Excluders. A harmless word in it self, and not half so bad as Abdicators.
1762 Punch's Politicks 43 Those very wretches, who had been the first abdicators of his Portuguese Majesty, will be the readiest to follow him.
1833 L. L. da Ponte Hist. Florentine Republic I. iv. 129 The throng of the abdicators bore away even those two who would have perished for the preservation of constituted order and the laws.
1841 P. Hone Diary 20 Sept. (1889) II. 90 Mr. Ewing, the late Secretary of the Treasury, having been the most prominent among the abdicators, comes in for the largest share of this reptile's venom.
2. A person who renounces a position, office, responsibility, etc.; esp. a monarch who renounces the throne. Cf. abdicant n.
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society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > [noun] > abdication > one who
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abdicant1836
1689 E. Bohun Answer Desertion Discuss'd 12 Consent implies, that the Question must be put, Whether the Person will Abdicate or no? Which never was put to any Abdicator in this World.
1711 Coll. Hymns & Poems 19 We shall keep our own Queen, Her Majesty's no Abdicator.
1795 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 901/1 Let it not be said that poor James the Second was a voluntary abdicator, without its being said that there was a contrivance to fright him into the measure.
1839 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 418/1 As no new subscribers made their appearance to supply the place of the abdicators, it soon became clear that The Spy could never be profitable.
1864 Daily Tel. Nov. 16 It is hard to lose a crown where the civil list can never be; it is painful to abdicate when the abdicator has no pension for his abdication.
1907 W. E. Griffis Japanese Nation in Evol. xii. 171 The abdicator of the Throne still pulled the wires.
1962 E. Bishop Brazil iii. 43 Not all of the abdicators have filled their pockets as liberally as he did, and their reasons for leaving have varied.
1992 V. P. Richmond & K. D. Roach in V. P. Richmond & J. C. McCroskey Power in Classroom iv. 52 The new manager who delegates all decisions is perceived as a pushover or an abdicator.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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