词汇 | abdicate |
词源 | abdicate [M16th] This is from Latin abdicare ‘to renounce’ from ab- ‘away, from’ and dicare ‘declare’. Examples of the sense ‘give up sovereignty’ date from the early 18th century. Abdication [LME] is much earlier, in the sense ‘to give up (something)’. |
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