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  1. abdicatornoun

    one who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility

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  1. abdicatornoun

    One who abdicates.

    King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom was an abdicator.

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  1. abdicator

    Abdication is the act of formally relinquishing monarchical authority. Abdications have played various roles in the succession procedures of monarchies. While some cultures have viewed abdication as an extreme abandonment of duty, in other societies (such as pre-Meiji Restoration Japan), abdication was a regular event and helped maintain stability during political succession. Historically, abdications have occurred both by force (where the regnant was forced to abdicate on pain of death or other severe consequences) and voluntarily. Some rulers are deemed to have abdicated in absentia, vacating the physical throne and thus their position of power, although these judgements were generally pronounced by successors with vested interests in seeing the throne abdicated, and often without or despite the direct input of the abdicating monarch. Recently, due to the largely ceremonial nature of the regnant in many constitutional monarchies, many monarchs have abdicated due to old age, such as the monarchs of Spain, Cambodia, the Netherlands and Japan.

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  1. abdicator

    An abdicator is a person who formally and willingly renounces or gives up a high office, position of authority, or responsibility, often in favor of another person. This term is often used in the context of a king or queen stepping down from the throne, also known as abdication.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Abdicatornoun

    one who abdicates

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of abdicator in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of abdicator in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1


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