different between renunciation vs abdication

English

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Noun

renunciation (countable and uncountable, plural renunciations)

1. the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid

   The President's renunciation of the treaty has upset Congress.

   The life of the spirit demands readiness for renunciation when the occasion arises...

2. the resignation of an ecclesiastical office

   The bishop's renunciation was on account of his ill health.

3. (law) The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.
4. (Christianity) In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.

Related terms

• renouncement

Translations

See also

• abjurement
• repudiation

Further reading

• renunciation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• renunciation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

First attested in 1552. From Middle French abdication, from Latin abdic?ti? (“renunciation”), from abdic?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb.d??ke?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb.d??ke?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

abdication (countable and uncountable, plural abdications)

1. (obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. [Attested from the mid 16^th century until the mid 17^th century.]
2. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]
3. The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power. [First attested in the late 17^th century.]

   abdication of the throne, government, power, authority

4. (obsolete, law) The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment. [Attested only in the mid 18^th century.]
5. (obsolete) The action of being deposed from the seat of power. [Attested only in the mid 17^th century.]

Translations

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abdic?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab.di.ka.sj??/

Noun

abdication f (plural abdications)

1. abdication

Related terms

• abdiquer

Further reading

• “abdication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

abdication (plural abdicationes)

1. abdication