The phrase "abdicate from" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe someone who has given up a position or responsibility they previously held. For example, "The King chose to abdicate from the throne after 25 years of reign."
You can't pick some and "abdicate from the remainder".
He cannot abdicate from working with his team-mates.
And I thought maybe I'd better abdicate from that little bit of fun.
It would be the cautious move of a relatively elderly society deciding to abdicate from any major global role.
The Rhenish Franks, on the other hand, did not wish to abdicate from their position as the leading and kingmaking people, which gave them many material advantages.
"It's an EU which has decided to abdicate from its role of protecting the internal market and protecting its citizens," he said.
"Some moments ago I abdicated from the throne," Beatrix said, seeming to struggle with tears.
(The psychotic is someone whose ego has abdicated from this responsibility — as it does nightly in normal people in the psychosis known as dreaming).
Among his sharpest recommendations and observations to future American princes: "A wise American policy will seek to navigate between a Europe abdicating from international responsibilities and a Europe striving for a global role in rivalry with the United States".
At the time, Sekeletu, who was rumoured to be illegitimate and the half-brother of a woman who had abdicated from the throne, was struggling to assert his authority in a highly militaristic state that valued valour in battle – which he had not proven because of his age – above royal blood.
Congolese authorities have abdicated from the development agenda.
