Abdication -LRB- from the Latin abdicatio , disowning , renouncing , from ab , away from , and dicare , to declare , to proclaim as not belonging to one -RRB- is the act of renouncing and resigning from a formal office , especially from the supreme office of state .

Abdication is the act of resigning from an office -LRB- official job -RRB- , especially from being the leader of a country .
