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Abdicate vs Ascend - What's the difference?

abdicate | ascend |

In lang=en terms the difference between abdicate and ascend

is that abdicate is to relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty while ascend is to succeed.

As verbs the difference between abdicate and ascend

is that abdicate is (obsolete) to disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit while ascend is to move upward, to fly, to soar.

abdicate

English

Verb

(abdicat)
  • (obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
  • (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
  • (obsolete) To depose.
  • (obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.
  • (Bishop Hall)
  • To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
  • Note:'' The word ''abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
  • * (rfdate) :
  • The cross-bearers abdicated their service.
  • * (rfdate) :
  • He abdicates all right to be his own governor.
  • * (rfdate) :
  • The understanding abdicates its functions.
  • To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
  • * (rfdate) :
  • Though a king may abdicate' for his own person, he cannot ' abdicate for the monarchy.

    Synonyms

    * give up, relinquish, renounce, quit, vacate, surrender, relent * forsake, abandon, desert, renounce, relent * forsake, give up * (relinquish or renounce a high office or sovereignty) relinquish, renounce, resign, quit, give up, vacate, relent

    Derived terms

    * abdicable * abdicant * abdicator

    References

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    ascend

    English

    (wikipedia ascend)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move upward, to fly, to soar.
  • He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
  • To slope in an upward direction.
  • The road ascends the mountain.
  • To go up.
  • You ascend the stairs and take a right.
  • To succeed.
  • She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
  • (figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
  • Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

    Antonyms

    * descend

    Anagrams

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