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abdication (n.)
1550s, "a disowning," from Latin
abdicationem
(nominative
abdicatio
) "renunciation, abdication," noun of action from past participle stem of
abdicare
(see
abdicate
); sense of "resignation of sovereignty" is from 1680s.
