As nouns the difference between holder and abdication

is that holder is a thing that holds while abdication is {{context|obsolete|lang=en}} the act of disowning or disinheriting a child {{defdate|attested from the mid 16^th century until the mid 17^th 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 =}}.