Difference between Abdicate and Renounce

ABDICATE vs RENOUNCE: NOUN

An act of renouncing.
In card-games in which the rule is to follow suit, the playing of a card of a different suit from that led.
Act of renouncing.

Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
Cast off
(cards) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
To give up, resign, surrender.
Cast off or disown
Turn away from; give up
Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
Leave (a job, post, post, or position) voluntarily
To surrender formally some right or trust.
To make a renunciation of something.
To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
To cast off, repudiate.

To give up (a title or possession, for example), especially by formal announcement.
To disclaim one's association with (a person or country, for example).
To give up, relinquish, or reject something.
To make renunciation.
To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
To decide or declare that one will no longer adhere to (a belief or position); reject.

To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity.
To reject; to cast off.
To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.

To decline to act as the executor of a will.
To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim.

To give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim, office, duties, dignity, authority, and the like, especially in a voluntary, public, or formal manner.
To discard; cast away; take leave of: as, to abdicate one's mental faculties. In civil law, to disclaim and expel from a family, as a child; disinherit during lifetime: with a personal subject, as father, parent.
To put away or expel; banish; renounce the authority of; dethrone; degrade.
Synonyms To resign, renounce, give up, quit, vacate, relinquish, lay down, abandon, desert. (See list under abandon, v.)
To renounce or give up something; abandon some claim; relinquish a right, power, or trust.

To declare against; disown; disclaim; abjure; forswear; refuse to own, acknowledge, or practise.
To cast off or reject, as a connection or possession; forsake.
In card-playing, to play (a suit) different from what is led: as, he renounced spades.
To declare a renunciation.
Turn away from
Give up

Evade, Waive, Forfeit, Dispense, Forswear, Surrender, Forgo, Quit, Forego, Forsake, Resign, Abandon, Shirk, Relinquish, Renounce

Cede, Denounce, Surrender, Forsake, Forswear, Abjure, Abandon, Give up, Vacate, Quit, Resign, Abdicate, Relinquish, Foreswear, Repudiate

Usurp, Waiver, Bypass, Circumvent, Evade, Waive, Forfeit, Dispense, Forswear, Surrender, Quit, Forego, Forsake, Resign, Abandon

Deny, Forego, Reject, Rescind, Condemn, Denounce, Surrender, Forsake, Forswear, Abandon, Give up, Vacate, Quit, Resign, Repudiate

In return, they must renounce their British nationality.
All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
These impracticable men renounce all expedients but power.
Renounce that friendship, his uncle said, or die.
African church elders and schoolteachers renounce female circumcision.
ANT: Abandon, renounce, abjure, surrender, lose, forfeit, resign.
They got it one man would never renounce.
He was told to renounce this Copernican doctrine.
Renounce the world and Allah will love you, and renounce what people possess and the people will love you.
Caritas leads to awareness that we cannot renounce on compassion and charity as we cannot renounce on Eucharist and the ministry of the word.