abdicate
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Abdicate, just God! and this unhappy country committed to his charge, and the lives of men and the honour of women....”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Abdicate commonly expresses the act of a monarch in voluntary and formally yielding up sovereign authority; as, to abdicate the government.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Abdicate he would not, though all his subjects had three tails apiece.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
"Abdicate or govern," said Albert de Gondi in the Queen's ear as she stood thinking.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de
Their Successors also, keeping up the same Custom, in the Year of Christ 679, forced Childeric, their Eleventh King, to Abdicate, because he had behaved himself insolently and wickedly in his Government.
From Franco-Gallia Or, An Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and Most Other Parts of Europe, Before the Loss of Their Liberties by Hotman, François
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