abdication
Abdication or abdication stands for:
- Abdication , formal renunciation of a high office or the throne
- Resignation from office , voluntary resignation from high church office
- Resignation as resigning from a temporary (public) office before the deadline
- Discharge of recruited troops from their service obligations, mainly used in the 17th and 18th centuries, see Farewell (military)
- in Switzerland: church burial (only used as a noun)
- Abdication (Heinrich Mann) , novella
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Wiktionary: Abdication - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
