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For other cultures, abdication was a much more routine element of succession.Īmong the most notable abdications of antiquity are those of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the dictator, in 79 BC Emperor Diocletian in AD 305 and Emperor Romulus Augustulus in AD 476. As a result, abdications usually only occurred in the most extreme circumstances of political turmoil or violence. In certain cultures, the abdication of a monarch was seen as a profound and shocking abandonment of royal duty. A notable exception is the voluntary relinquishing of the office of Bishop of Rome (and thus sovereign of the Vatican City State) by the pope, called papal resignation or papal renunciation. An elected or appointed official is said to resign rather than to abdicate.

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Today the term commonly applies to monarchs. In Roman law the term was also applied to the disowning of a family member, such as disinheriting a son. In its broadest sense abdication is the act of renouncing and resigning from any formal office, but it is applied especially to the supreme office of state. The word abdication is derived from the Latin abdicatio meaning to disown or renounce ( ab, away from, and dicare, to proclaim). Tomb effigy of heart of King John II Casimir Vasa at Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, showing removal of the crown