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Abdication vs Acquiescence - What's the difference?

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Abdication is a related term of acquiescence.


As nouns the difference between abdication and acquiescence

is that abdication is (obsolete) the act of disowning or disinheriting a child while acquiescence is a silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

abdication

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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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    acquiescence

    English

    (wikipedia acquiescence)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
  • (legal) Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.

    • Related terms

    * acquiesce

    Quotations

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