Abdication vs Renounce - What's the difference?
abdication | renounce |
(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.
To give up, resign, surrender.
To cast off, repudiate.
* Shakespeare
To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
To make a renunciation of something.
* Dryden
To surrender formally some right or trust.
* W. D. Christie
(card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
As nouns the difference between abdication and renounce
is that abdication is (obsolete) the act of disowning or disinheriting a child while renounce is (card games) an act of.As a verb renounce is
to give up, resign, surrender.abdication
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(renounc)- to renounce a title to land or to a throne
- This world I do renounce , and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.
- He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
- Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced , his son Charles administered on June 10.