A renunciation of a supreme or highest office of a king or the like. A giving up of a position of power or authority. When inferior officers decline or surrender their offices, they resign The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.
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