abdication[noun]Synonyms: giving up, abandonment, quitting, renunciation, resignation, retirement, surrender
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Ab·di‧ca‧tion /ˌæbdəˈkeɪʃ
ən, ˌæbdɪˈkeɪʃ
ən/
the Abdication (
also the Abdiˈcation ˌCrisis) the period in Britain in 1936, in which King Edward VIII abdicated so that he could marry Wallis Simpson, a woman who had been divorced (
divorce)
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