abdication

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Elizabeth is also the conscience of the piece, befriending the Creature and being alternately attracted to Victor and repulsed by what she sees as his moral degeneracy—never mind his abdication of parental responsibility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Poet's Neuk said the land - at the corner of Greyfriars Garden and St Mary's Place - was gifted to the Fife town by Queen Mary prior to her abdication in 1567.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2025

Lewis said he knew that some readers would view the enforced neutrality as an "abdication of responsibility" before painting it as a return to the paper's mission.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024

Police testified that the family had agreed to remove Card’s guns, but the commission said that leaving this to his family “was an abdication of law enforcement’s responsibility.”

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024

And by destruction I mean precisely the abdication by Americans of any effort really to be free.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin