abdications
Giving up crowns
Abdications is the plural of abdication, the act of formally giving up a position of power or responsibility.
The word most often applies to monarchs who renounce their thrones: The twentieth century saw several royal abdications.
More broadly, it can describe any surrender of duty or authority: Their abdications of parental responsibility left the children struggling.
Monarchs' ceremonial chairs
- monarchsRulers with crowns
- crownsRegal head ornaments
- successionsSeries of consecutive things
- reignsHolds sovereign power
sovereigns · dynasties · kingdoms · heirs · regencies · depositions · interregnums · coronations
King who abdicated 1936
- NapoleonFrench emperor, military genius
- Nicholas IILast imperial Russian ruler
- Kaiser WilhelmGerman imperial sovereign
- Juan CarlosHispanic masculine name combination
Beatrix · exile · forced · voluntary · wartime · revolutionary · peacetime · documentaries
Acts of formally rejecting
- relinquishmentsActs of surrendering control
- waiversVoluntary right surrenders
- surrendersCeases resistance formally
- forfeituresProperties surrendered as penalties
disclaimers · cessions · resignations · transfers · inheritances · successions · documents · signatures
Required tasks or charges
- obligationsRequired responsibilities
- rolesPositions or functions held
- positionsLocations or viewpoints held
- leadershipAbility to direct others
authority · accountability · stewardship · guardianship · trusteeship · custody · charges · mandates
thrones
Monarchs' ceremonial chairs
- monarchsRulers with crowns
- crownsRegal head ornaments
- successionsSeries of consecutive things
reigns · sovereigns · dynasties · kingdoms · heirs · regencies · depositions · interregnums · coronations · royal
Edward VIII
King who abdicated 1936
- NapoleonFrench emperor, military genius
- Nicholas IILast imperial Russian ruler
- Kaiser WilhelmGerman imperial sovereign
Juan Carlos · Beatrix · exile · forced · voluntary · wartime · revolutionary · peacetime · documentaries · biographies
renunciations
Acts of formally rejecting
- relinquishmentsActs of surrendering control
- waiversVoluntary right surrenders
- surrendersCeases resistance formally
forfeitures · disclaimers · cessions · resignations · transfers · inheritances · successions · documents · signatures · witnesses
duties
Required tasks or charges
- obligationsRequired responsibilities
- rolesPositions or functions held
- positionsLocations or viewpoints held
leadership · authority · accountability · stewardship · guardianship · trusteeship · custody · charges · mandates · offices
abdicationscoronations
Sovereign installation rites
enthronements · inaugurations · accessions · investitures · crownings
abdicationsassumptions
Unproven things taken as true
acceptances · undertakings · commitments · dedications · retentions
- royal abdicationMonarch formally surrenders crown
- forced abdicationInvoluntary relinquishment of sovereignty