engelska-tyska översättning av abdicate

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
To depose.
To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.

to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy
Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender

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