abdicant

abdicant
/ab"di keuhnt/, adj.
1. abdicating, forsaking, or deserting: to be abdicant of one's duty.
n.
2. a person who abdicates; abdicator.
[1645-55; < L abdicant- (s. of abdicans), prp. of abdicare. See ABDICATE, -ANT]

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