Go to New Version of This Page
This old version has not been updated since 2016,
but we're leaving it in case you prefer it.
Show What's New
Please update your links from the new version.
|
abdicate |
Used in |
Middlemarch |
Go to Book Vocabulary |
- For in the first hour of meeting you, I had an impression of your eminent and perhaps exclusive fitness to supply that need (connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preoccupations of a work too special to be abdicated could not uninterruptedly dissimulate); and each succeeding opportunity for observation has given the impression an added depth by convincing me more emphatically of that fitness which I had preconceived, and thus evoking more decisively… (not reviewed by editor)
|
To see samples from other sources, click a sense of the word below: |
as in: abdicated responsibility |
as in: abdicated the throne |
To see an overview of word senses, click here. |
|
Go to Book Vocabulary |
 |
Learn more easily. Think more clearly. Express more effectively. |
|
|