engelska-tyska översättning av abdicate
Definition 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.
Exempel
- 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