Abdicated
[æbdɪkeɪt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Abdicate
Checker: Yale
Examples
- She abdicated without a word or a struggle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She abdicated her throne, and despoiled herself of her imperial sceptre among the ice rocks that surrounded us. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A little later at Fontainebleau the emperor abdicated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 1912 the emperor abdicated, and the greatest community in the world became a republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then, by all the rules of kingship, Maximilian should have abdicated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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