abdication

Examples of abdicated

abdicated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Not only were the violators not punished, but local officials stopped convening meetings or demanding compulsory labour, as though they had abdicated their authority.
On the contrary, he had let himself be prevailed upon to abandon his kingdom without a government and had thus abdicated the throne.
The point is that government has a responsibility to decide which cannot be abdicated by deference to a belief in the inevitability of market forces.
As they condescended (or abdicated their distinction), visitors were required to act like the people they were trying to help.
They thus abdicated their monopoly on leadership.
Condescension originally denoted an act whereby an authority figure temporarily abdicated the privileges of his or her position for the benefit of a dependant.
Morality as such was abdicated in favour of an immutable 'cosmic process'.
If he abdicated from his position of wanting the compulsory powers, a great deal of the difficulty would go.
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