What is another word for abdications?

Pronunciation: [ˌabdɪkˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

Abdications refer to the act of renouncing or giving up power, authority, or responsibility. Synonyms for abdications include resignation, surrender, relinquishment, abandonment, forsaking, rejection, disownment, and repudiation. All these words describe an act of giving up something either voluntarily or involuntarily. While some synonyms can be used interchangeably with abdications, others have specific contexts and meanings. For instance, abdication and resignation both imply surrendering power, but resignation is often used in a professional context when someone voluntarily quits a job. Surrender and abandonment, on the other hand, imply giving up something after a struggle or resistance. All the same, these synonyms express the same idea as abdications - the relinquishing of power or responsibility.

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What are the hypernyms for Abdications?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Abdications

These are crude beginnings but radical, far more radical in the literal meaning of that word than the repetition of wars, revolutions, abdications and restorations; as radical as the change in the scale of human life which has made it possible for Mr. Lloyd George to discuss Welsh coal mining after breakfast in London, and the fate of the Arabs before dinner in Paris.
"Public Opinion"
Walter Lippmann
Had Louis Philippe mentioned that the abdications were in fact conditional, and had he declared himself protector of the Duc de Bordeaux during his minority, there is little doubt that the legitimate heir would have been peaceably accepted both by the Chamber and by Paris.
"History of Modern Europe 1792-1878"
C. A. Fyffe

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