What is the difference between abandonment and abdication?
abandonment | abdication |
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
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The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
An abandoned building or structure.
(legal) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
(legal) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
The self-surrender to an outside influence.
Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
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(obsolete) 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; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.
(obsolete, legal) The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.
(obsolete) The action of being deposed from the seat of power.
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As nouns the difference between abandonment and abdication
is that abandonment is the act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment {{defdate|late 16th century}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =2| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}} while abdication is {{context|obsolete|lang=en}} the act of disowning or disinheriting a child {{defdate|attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =3| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.abandonment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment .
- High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.
