to abdicate

Synonyms

resign abdicate

Examples

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. Marshall McLuhan

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. Ayn Rand

We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. Edward R. Murrow

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms. Beth Moore

Words in the phrase

to abdicate

Close letter words and terms

to abase to abash to abate to abhor to abide to abolish