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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

abdication (countable and uncountable, plural abdications)

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

   abdication of the throne, government, power, authority

   the king’s abdication

   • 2025 October 31, Marina Hyde, “Now Andrew has been fired from the Firm, a nation wonders: who’ll be next?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     So yes: the abdication was when the Windsors opened the gate. After that it was – and will be – whack-a-mole. Every crisis will draw significant numbers of people out who would ask why you couldn’t cut off whoever was displeasing them in that moment.

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

派生語

参照

Further reading

• Abdication in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)