Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abdicating; renouncing.
- noun One who abdicates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who abdicates.
- adjective Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by
of .
Etymologies
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abdicate + -ant
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Examples
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In like manner, while it is simoniacal for an abdicant to stipulate for
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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As one prominent GOP consultant put it, hopeful of the prospect either Montandon or Heck will defeat the abdicant, "He's a ticket-killer."
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- tuo, rellqui tyranni abdicant tyraimidem.ibid. cf. II.
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