Sentence examples for abdicated was from inspiring English sources
The most famous earlier Pope to have freely abdicated was Celestine V, a monk and a hermit, who stepped down in 1294, in the hope of returning to his previous life.
The Supercommittee, charged with providing the leadership on spending the president has all but abdicated, is unlikely to agree to a passable deal.
The 76-year-old abdicated king was absent from the ceremony, as was Felipe's sister Cristina, who, along with her husband, is at the centre of a long-running corruption investigation.
In 889 Boris, whose faith apparently was deep and genuine, abdicated to enter a monastery.
The result can be entertaining and intelligent, as in her analysis of the Playboy philosophy, by which the role of breadwinner was "deferred rather than abdicated," or of the shift in advertisements for men's underwear, from an emphasis on wash-and-wearability, which catered to wives, to Calvin Klein's direct appeal to the men themselves.
Osthryth was murdered in unknown circumstances in 697, and in 704 Æthelred abdicated, leaving the throne to Wulfhere's son Coenred.
The mountain's reputation was further enhanced when another warrior king, 13th-century Vietnamese ruler Tran Nhan Tong, abdicated and retired to live as a monk on Yen Tu, founding the Truc Lam (bamboo forest) version of Zen Buddhism.
I had essentially abdicated responsibility for my own health and allowed it to get out of control, even though I was the chief executive of the NHS.
Sigtrygg II Silkbeard Olafsson (also Sihtric, Sitric and Sitrick in Irish texts; or Sigtryg and Sigtryggr in Scandinavian texts) was a Hiberno-Norse king of Dublin (possibly AD 989 994; restored or began 995 1000; restored 1000 and abdicated 1036) of the Uí Ímair dynasty.
