Crossword-Solution: ABDICATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abdicate | v. t. | To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy. |
| Abdicate | v. t. | To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. |
| Abdicate | v. t. | To reject; to cast off. |
| Abdicate | v. t. | To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit. |
| Abdicate | v. i. | To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
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Sentences with ABDICATE (5)
After all, what had he to be ashamed of? For a moment he was on the point of making a clean breast of it, of crying out, “Dearest friends, I abdicate: I can’t help you!” But he checked himself; he felt so impatient to have his three words with Christina.
Syn.Ð To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender; resign; abdicate; quit; relinquish; renounce; desert; forsake; leave; retire; withdraw from.
Undoubtedly it would be better were man not compelled to change: but what! because he is born ignorant, because he exists only on condition of gradual self-instruction, must he abjure the light, abdicate his reason, and abandon himself to fortune? Perfect health is better than convalescence: should the sick man, therefore, refuse to be cured? Reform, reform! cried, ages since, John the Baptist and Jesus Christ.
When the people began to clamor and demand that he himself should abdicate, he became insane with rage, and committed such cruelties that the people ran mad themselves.
May your Majesty never abdicate her throne, and may she ever count me her humble servant and devoted knight." "And now, sister," said Warwick, when Tryon had been driven away, "now that the masquerade is over, let us to sleep, and to-morrow take up the serious business of life.
Quotes with ABDICATE (3)
But you won’t abdicate." Of course not. It’s my duty to go on, to maintain the line. I can’t possibly fail in that. It’s as if you and I were throwing a ball back and forth to establish a record, and had been doing so for a millennium. You cannot drop a ball that has remained airborne through good effort for most of a thousand years. You cannot stop an unlikely heart that has been beating for so long. I would rather die than betray continuity, for its own sake if for nothing …
A writer tears open their soul for you We lay bare our fears and woes for you We pour our heart onto the page for you We unleash our demons for you Letters like blood smear the page for you The world's pain we absorb for you A delicate path of sanity walked for you Only for you to -Crumple the page in disdain You will not abdicate your reign In the oblivion of life, you’ll remain As I continue to write for you
And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer us love and respect, without conflict and without resentment. It is the hardest lesson to learn that the goal of parenthood is not to reign forever but to abdicate gracefully at the right time.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1967–2013).