Sentence examples for the abdicating from inspiring English sources
verb
To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
Less clear is what the abdicating emir himself will do.
Like England watching with trepidation in 1936 as an untried Duke of York replaced the abdicating Edward VIII, viewers enjoyed a happy surprise Sunday night.
Queen Elizabeth is now 87 years old, but she is not the abdicating kind, and there are longevity genes in the family; her own mother lived to be 102).
Life was all quiet on the Glaswegian front: on the day the Kaiser abdicated, the Livingstones played Ludo.
Photograph: Sky News 9.10am BST Queen Beatrix signs the statement abdicating the Dutch throne.
On the Balkan frontier, meanwhile, the Bulgars assumed the role abdicated by the Avars after 626.
Apparently there has been a surge of bets on the likelihood of the Queen abdicating during her annual Christmas message.
King Sigeric of Essex left for Rome in 798, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, presumably abdicating the throne in favour of his son, Sigered.
And an increased reliance on lottery funding is the government abdicating responsibility.
The fact of the matter is The Times has abdicated the primary responsibility of an institution so important to democracy and to the future of us all".
William J. Briggs II, a lawyer representing the bank, said the decision "abdicated federal judicial authority to the Internet".
