(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.

plural of abdication

Capable of being abdicated.

(rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.

(logic) A reasoning from the negative

(rare) Abdicating; renouncing.

One who abdicates.

(transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

(obsolete) A person supporting the abdication of another. / One who abdicates.

simple past tense and past participle of abdicate