Abdications

Word ABDICATIONS
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What do we mean by abdications?

The act of disowning or disinheriting a child.

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.

The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power

The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.

The action of being deposed from the seat of power.

To remove oneself from being head of state. eg. Queen/King. Urban Dictionary

To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own, to disclaim, disown, cast off; esp. to disown or disinherit children. Now only as a tech. term of Rom. Law (L. abdicare filium, also patrem); To depose (from an office or dignity). Obs.; refl. To formally cut oneself off, sever, or separate oneself from anything; esp. to divest oneself of an office (L. abdicare se magistratu). Obs.; trans. To put away, cast off, discard (anything). Obs. Urban Dictionary

To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. Urban Dictionary

Someone used this word meaning to say abducted. Dumb ass bitch needs to be abdicated Urban Dictionary

When your riding partner dismounts as you climax, you jizz all over your abdomen and then they lick it off. Urban Dictionary

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The word "abdications" in example sentences

We had downgrades and Wall Street Occupations, sovereign crises that led to abdications of fiscal sovereignty come on down, Italy and Spain and "voluntary haircuts" that no investor wanted. ❋ Francesco Guerrera (2011)

At bottom, this is not about legal analysis abstracted from those existential/practical matters, this is not about finessing legal casuistries, this is about repeated and repeated abdications on the part of the federal govt. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The novel's witty successionof trapdoor endings, culminating (we think) in "the quietest of abdications," keeps surprising us long after it seems Bayard's plot has nowhere else to go. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cowardice in what has become the standard for such abdications. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The “Board” here is essentially a lawless entity except for when the real courts Art III courts or here, PA commonwealth court actually do step back into the fray from their abdications and substitute their judgment for that of the Agency or Board. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If Afghanistan burns while the president is fiddling with health insurance, he could be remembered for one of the greatest abdications of responsibility in the history of the American presidency. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a democracy, abdications of conscience are never trivial. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the FDA, EPA, and USDA employed another of the Bush administration's institutionalized abdications of GMO oversight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They want for us to be incurious about disastrous policies or abdications of responsibility, to dismiss our most important policies as trivia. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There have been wars and abdications, sex-scandals and resignations, but nothing, ever, in the history of man, has carried quite the momentum of the Celthcairn affair. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

The Cowardice of Congress yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Cowardice of Congress'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: While angry America searches for assertive action, Congress placates the President and continually serves up more pointless platitudes amid a mix of abdications and felonious failures.' ❋ Unknown (2006)

While angry America searches for assertive action, Congress placates the President and continually serves up more pointless platitudes amid a mix of abdications and felonious failures. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The almost complete, and resounding silence is the defining mark of the abdications of all responsibility by the other two branches of government. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Many changes also now occurred in these spontaneous regal elections: depositions and abdications were frequent, while, in the place of the old and prudent, the ardent youth would step forward, eager for action, regardless of danger. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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. ❋ Walter Lippmann (1931)

` Before the sun sets to-day, Firmin, trust me, we shall have made our abdications, all of us, and declared the World Republic, supreme and indivisible. ❋ Herbert George (1914)

Church history furnishes a number of examples of papal abdications. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Mary Queen of [Scots] was forced to abdicate the [throne] by [rebels]. She was no longer Queen of Scotland, and her son became King. ❋ Vaughn (2005)

1541 [ELYOT] Im. Gov. 149 The father..[doeth] abdicate nowe and then one, that is to [saie], putteth them out of his familie. 1644 MILTON Jus Pop. 34 Parents may not causelessly abdicate or disinherit children. 1697 POTTER [Antiq]. Greece IV. xv. 351 (1715) Parents were [allow'd] to be reconcil'd to their children, but after that could never abdicate them again. a1763 SHENSTONE Essays 117 Wherever I disesteemed, I would abdicate my first cousin. 1828 SEWELL Oxf. Pr. Essay 70 Sons were exposed, abdicated, and sold by the laws of Solon ❋ JDOE (2002)

A: [No more] workouts ?!! B: No, I [abdicated] :( ❋ LaneDevilishAngel (2011)

They abdicated are [cat] [meow] ❋ Abdicated (2016)

[My Bae] rode me [royally] before I blew all over my belly, then she [abdicated]. ❋ (2022)

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