Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who abdicates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who abdicates.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility
Etymologies
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Examples
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My dictionary defines quitter as "one that quits", it is also a synonym for abdicator: "one who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility".
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At that time, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was the duchess of York, sister-in-law of Edward the abdicator.
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At that time, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was the duchess of York, sister-in-law of Edward the abdicator.
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In the twelfth century, it happened that a Mikado, particularly alive to the vanities of the world, not only gave up his station to his son, then three years old, but also renounced the labors of the regency, which were intrusted to the infant monarch's grandfather, whose first exercise of power was the immediate imprisonment of the abdicator.
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The powerful Creoles of Santa Fe de Bogota didn’t actually declare independence from Spain, the declared allegiance to the abdicator, Fernando VII of Spain.
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