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Patience vs Abdication - What's the difference?

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Patience is a related term of abdication.


As a proper noun patience

is .

As a noun abdication is

(obsolete) the act of disowning or disinheriting a child .

patience

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being patient.
  • Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).

    • Related terms

    * passion * passionate * passive * passivity * patient

    Antonyms

    * impatience

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    See also

    *garden patience ----

    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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