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Definition of Abdicates
1. abdicate [v] - See also: abdicate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abdicates
Literary usage of Abdicates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... corps enters Catalonia—Insurrections of Aranjuez and Madrid—Charles the Fourth
abdicates—Ferdinand proclaimed king—Murat marches to Madrid—Refuses to ..."
2. Works by Washington Irving (1896)
"... 1Tf. Succession of Hassan, Fifth Caliph—He abdicates in Favor of ... abdicates ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"FRANCIS II abdicates THE IMPERIAL CROWN On the 12th of July, 1806, sixteen princes
of western Germany concluded, under Napoleon's direction, a treaty, ..."
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