Crossword-Solution: ABDICATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abdication | n. | 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. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “ABDICATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Edward VIII's action of 1936 | 1 answer |
| RENUNCIATION of office | 1 answer |
| ABNEGATION | 11 answers |
| loss of right | 14 answers |
| cession | 17 answers |
| quittance | 22 answers |
| resignation | 22 answers |
| Disclaimer | 30 answers |
| relinquishment | 56 answers |
| submission | 62 answers |
| Abandonment | 62 answers |
| Departure | 64 answers |
| Laxity | 68 answers |
| Surrender | 68 answers |
| withdrawal | 83 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ABDICATION (5)
Atkinson had at length wearied of Flambeau’s almost paternal custody, and had endeavoured to knock him down, which was by no means a smooth game to play with the Roi des Apaches, even after that monarch’s abdication.
The younger artist was said to have formed himself at my friend’s feet, and I wondered if a tinge of jealousy underlay the latter’s mysterious abdication.
Inequality of fortunes, absolute abdication by the republic of its right of eminent domain over the property of citizens,--such were the first results of the division of Numa, who justly may be regarded as the originator of Roman revolutions.
There is nothing in him, not respect, not love, not courage—his wife, his dignity, his throne, the honour of his father, he forgets them all!’ ‘Yes,’ pursued the Baron, ‘the word Abdication.
And so I have never regretted giving up either diplomacy or journalism--two different forms of the same self-abdication." He fixed his vivid eyes on Archer as he lit another cigarette.
Quotes with ABDICATION (3)
The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclusively with objective existents, cannot give answers to questions about meanings and values. Only ideas engendered by the mind and to be found nowhere but in the mind (Socrates), only the pure transcendental forms supplied by reas…
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
The task of all Christian scholarship — not just biblical studies — is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).