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resignation
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  • I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.   (source)
  • She said that if I don't resign, I will be fired.
    resign = quit
  • I resigned my position.   (source)
    resigned = quit (a job)
  • Soon afterward, he resigned from the pancake company and took a job as a cruise director in Miami.   (source)
  • Mr. Lucius Malfoy, a governor of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the enchanted car crashed earlier this year, called today for Mr. Weasley's resignation.   (source)
    resignation = quitting from his position at work
  • He lampooned Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden, called for the resignation of Attorney General Edwin Meese, lambasted Bible-thumpers of the Christian right, urged vigilance against the Soviet threat, castigated the Japanese for hunting whales, and defended Jesse Jackson as a viable presidential candidate.   (source)
    resignation = quitting from his position
  • I came here for one reason only: to announce my resignation from all matters regarding the Westing estate, with sincere apologies to all concerned.   (source)
    resignation = quitting (from the job or position)
  • the American president Richard Nixon had resigned over a scandal.   (source)
    resigned = given up a position or job
  • I gave in and sent a letter three days ago with my resignation.   (source)
    resignation = formal statement quitting a job
  • So he resigned the presidency of the Golden Fleece Debating Society,   (source)
    resigned = quit (a job or position)
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  • When he heard about the doctors' resignation, he asked to see the records of patients in the study.   (source)
    resignation = quitting (their jobs)
  • Mussolini has resigned and the King of Italy has taken over the government.   (source)
    resigned = quit (a job or position)
  • "The Hegemon resigned," said Dink.   (source)
    resigned = quit (a job)
  • I hope Carol is listening, and takes this as a sign that I've resigned myself to the change in plans.   (source)
    resigned = quit
  • The Board wanted Jack's resignation and Jack had given it to them.   (source)
    resignation = to quit a job
  • Quiet arrests made, sudden resignations in Washington.   (source)
    resignations = quitting of jobs
  • He had resigned in 2005, a few months after the storm.   (source)
    resigned = quit (his job)
  • "I'm afraid I have no option," he said, "but to ask for your resignation."   (source)
    resignation = to quit a job; or a document expressing that someone is quitting a job
  • ...my resignation as the faculty advisor and my application as the journalist.   (source)
    resignation = to quit; or a document expressing that someone is quitting a job
  • John Carroll, the man who hired me, is resigning to avoid one more day of battling the hog butchers in Chicago.   (source)
    resigning = quitting (his job)
  • You resigned as publisher, you left the editorial staff and the board, and you went to live in the woods.   (source)
    resigned = quit
  • he resigned as county agent   (source)
    resigned = quit (his job)
  • When the Blood Shrike heard about the attack plans, he tried to resign his post.   (source)
    resign = quit
  • the doctor was informed that his resignation would be accepted,   (source)
    resignation = letter saying he would quit his job
  • Papito has resigned his United Nations post and so is not very well liked by the government right now.   (source)
    resigned = quit from
  • Ever since the House of Hades, when he'd resigned his praetorship, ambrosia and nectar didn't taste like his favorite foods from Camp Jupiter.   (source)
    resigned = quit
  • It was made even more interesting a few minutes later when Bolivar walked up and handed in his resignation.   (source)
    resignation = a document expressing that he is quitting his job
  • I don't know what I expected him to have, but I was fantasizing that maybe it was his resignation letter.   (source)
    resignation = a document expressing that someone is quitting a job
  • ...joining discussion groups and resigning from discussion groups,   (source)
    resigning = quitting
  • The very next day he resigned from the clinic,   (source)
    resigned = quit (a job)
  • I am a princess now. ... And I don't think it's the kind of thing you can resign from!   (source)
    resign = quit
  • She would tell Gates that if he didn't reinstate Lucy Friedman she would resign.   (source)
    resign = quit her job
  • She decides one last case before she resigns as a judge for the People's Court.   (source)
    resigns = quits (leaves her job)
  • the general manager had resigned and vanished three days ago   (source)
    resigned = quit (the job)
  • Since resigning from the staff of Celebrity, Bryan found her work load hadn't eased.   (source)
    resigning = quitting
  • An Iowa officer who had risen from the ranks during three years of service while his father and younger sister had died and his brother was missing in action after the battle of Atlanta wrote to his distraught mother in September, 1864, that he could not resign his commission and come home while the war's outcome remained in doubt.   (source)
    resign = quit
  • If you pull me, I will take leave and pursue the case on personal time. If necessary, I will resign.   (source)
    resign = quit (her job)
  • I have therefore resigned my commission in the Army...   (source)
    resigned = quit
  • You better cut that talk out, Theresa, or we'll resign.   (source)
    resign = quit (a job)
  • What you are doing is forcing me to resign.   (source)
  • Ralph started another list, What It Would Mean If Old Chao Were To Have To Resign In Shame.   (source)
    resign = to quit a job or position
  • ...he furiously resigned as president-elect of the Virginia chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution,   (source)
    resigned = quit
  • Miss America can just resign!   (source)
    resign = quit (from her position)
  • I am resigning my commission in the State Militia.   (source)
    resigning = quitting
  • Therefore I wrote to Piedmont, offered my resignation for the following June, and offered to help find a replacement.   (source)
    resignation = a document expressing that someone is quitting a job
  • The King accepts your resignation very sadly;   (source)
    resignation = quitting from your position
  • After the scene in the Fertilizing Room, all upper-caste London was wild to see this delicious creature who had fallen on his knees before the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning–or rather the ex-Director, for the poor man had resigned immediately afterwards and never set foot inside the Centre again–   (source)
    resigned = quit (a job)
  • Blanche: You thought I'd been fired?
    Stella: No, I - thought you might have - resigned   (source)
  • who had resigned from the Air Force   (source)
    resigned = quit
  • A very distinguished officer had committed suicide, another had suddenly resigned,   (source)
    resigned = quit (from a job or position)
  • King Pellinore, not without a few sighs for the good old days, was forced to resign his rights in her to the Saracen.   (source)
    resign = give up (quit)
  • It would not be gentlemanly to resign in any of the ways suggested.   (source)
    resign = quit his job
  • all of whom expected the city reading job when and if Miss Armstrong resigned.   (source)
    resigned = quit (a job)
  • I shall resign my office...   (source)
    resign = quit from
  • He resigned as Attorney General to become counsel and vice-president for the American Electric Power Company,   (source)
    resigned = quit (a job)
  • first year at West Point—that year during which no cadet can resign and from which none ever recovers   (source)
    resign = quit (a position or job)
  • ...he resigned the office of Chancellor,   (source)
    resigned = quit
  • I won't resign, and if you do fire me I think I'll take it to the courts,   (source)
  • In the preceding February he had resigned his charge and departed amid the regrets of his people,   (source)
    resigned = quit (the job/position)
  • We played robber now and then about a month, and then I resigned.   (source)
    resigned = quit
  • ...it shall be kept secret even from me and Mr. Arrow. Otherwise I would ask you to let me resign.   (source)
    resign = quit (from his job)
  • To confess the truth, it was my greatest apprehension—as it would never be a measure of policy to turn out so quiet an individual as myself; and it being hardly in the nature of a public officer to resign—it was my chief trouble, therefore, that I was likely to grow grey and decrepit in the Surveyorship, and become much such another animal as the old Inspector.   (source)
    resign = quit (a position or job)
  • I was the happiest of men; for my pretty Virlandaise, resigning her place as ward, took her position in the old house on the Konigstrasse in the double capacity of niece to my uncle and wife to a certain happy youth.   (source)
    resigning = quit
  • I will give in my resignation as captain of the king's Musketeers to...   (source)
    resignation = notice of quitting (a job or position)
  • When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned from office, then the revolution is accomplished.   (source)
    resigned = quit (from a job)
  • Lord Ravenshaw and the duke had appropriated the only two characters worth playing before I reached Ecclesford; and though Lord Ravenshaw offered to resign his to me, it was impossible to take it, you know.   (source)
    resign = give up
  • ...advis'd me to resign, as more consistent with my honour than being turn'd out.   (source)
    resign = quit (the job)
  • In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.   (source)
    resignation = quitting (from the position)
  • He felt so ashamed of himself that he went to Wood and offered to resign from the Quidditch team.   (source)
    resign = quit
  • The whole Wizarding community has been screaming for my resignation for a fortnight.   (source)
    resignation = quitting (from a job)
  • "If you resign," said Harry testily, "there'll only be three players left on the team."   (source)
    resign = quit (the team)
  • "I refuse to accept your resignation, Hagrid, and I expect you back at work on Monday," he said.   (source)
    resignation = document expressing that one is quitting a job
  • The current political climate led to my resignation.   (source)
    resignation = quitting from a job
  • "I have resigned," Lidewij said after a moment.   (source)
    resigned = quit (a job)
  • "Well, not exactly checkmate," Theo replied, "but Sandy would have had to resign."   (source)
    resign = quit (from a job or position)
  • So why did you resign from the police force?   (source)
    resign = quit
  • The Blood Shrike can resign, but only if the Emperor agrees to release him from service.   (source)
  • When I had decided to resign, it had indeed given me a measure of peace,   (source)
    resign = quit (from the military)
  • Following the resignation of the previous Muggle Studies teacher, Alecto Carrow will take over the post...   (source)
    resignation = quitting (from his position)
  • And he said you'd resigned.   (source)
    resigned = quit (his job)
  • Resign?   (source)
    resign = quit
  • ...in his most impressive burst of irresponsibility, resigned from the Student Advisory Committee to the Headmaster's Discretionary Benevolent Fund.   (source)
    resigned = quit (a job or position)
  • There were the nagging headlines about the missing E.I.S., the embarrassing resignation of Kimberly Lou Dixon, the TV footage of Chuck Muckle throttling Kelly Colfax … and, last but not least, those darn owls.   (source)
    resignation = the process of quitting a job
  • Mariam, who had never heard of Nixon, or the scandal that had forced him to resign, did not say anything back.   (source)
    resign = quit (a position or job)
  • I RESIGN!   (source)
  • I resigned.   (source)
    resigned = quit
  • "Actually," Helene says, "the Blood Shrike can resign, but only if the Emperor agrees to release him from service."   (source)
  • "You can't resign as Blood Shrike."   (source)
  • ...had even considered one restless night the advisability of resigning and letting someone who had not lost face take over the responsibility.   (source)
    resigning = quitting (his job)
  • I'm resigning from the hero business.   (source)
    resigning = quitting
  • But because they were exemplary men, they offered me the chance to resign with honor and without a blot on my record, if I did not take the case to court.   (source)
    resign = quit
  • He hoped she would resign. He could not face the thought of having to fire her.   (source)
    resign = quit (from her job)
  • About one-third of the junior class are going to resign from their clubs.   (source)
    resign = quit
  • Won't you stand by Fern, and threaten to resign from the board if they try to discharge her?   (source)
    resign = quit (in this to quit in protest)
  • who expects shortly to resign his pulpit   (source)
    resign = quit
  • And when, just after the noonday dinner, the goodwife gave him a basket of kittens to drown, he did resign.   (source)
    resign = quit (from a position or job)
  • In view of my previous weariness of office, and vague thoughts of resignation, my fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and although beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.   (source)
    resignation = quitting (from the job)
  • I have resign'd to you my charge.   (source)
    resign'd = quit (a job or position)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled resigned.
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  • She was resigned to being embarrassed by her younger brother.
    resigned = with acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • I was shocked out of this resignation two weeks into the fall semester, when I awoke one night to a blinding pain in my jaw.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • Curiosity got the better of me, and I resigned myself to stay as long as my schedule allowed, and I watched.   (source)
    resigned = accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • Many struggled just to put food on the table and sometimes seemed to be resigned to the social issues of the time.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • Hassan didn't struggle. Didn't even whimper. He moved his head slightly and I caught a glimpse of his face. Saw the resignation in it.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • Not happy about being in this damn cage, but he's resigned to it, and he's no longer angry.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • The woman at the door sighs, resigned to the fact that "Didi" isn't going away empty-handed, and sometimes the best way to get rid of girls like this is just to give them something.   (source)
  • It was a sweltering afternoon, but Roy had resigned himself to the fact that there was no change of seasons in South Florida, only mild variations of summer.   (source)
    resigned = accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • He dropped his head and, with an expression of ashamed resignation, told them everything—the exact location of the bases, the numbers of planes. The Japanese broke into jubilant smiles. ... As they celebrated, they had no idea that the "bases" that Louie had identified were the fake airfields he had seen when tooling around Hawaii with Phil.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • Ron sighed as though resigned to the worst, "I'm ready. Let's go."   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
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  • August settled herself beside me on the swing, resigned.   (source)
  • Warming himself ever so briefly had shaken away the lethargy and resignation and restored his will to survive.   (source)
    resignation = inclination to accept defeat as unavoidable
  • "Oh," replied Little Man, resigned.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • "Well," Cherry said resignedly, "they've spotted us."   (source)
    resignedly = as though having accepted something undesirable as unavoidable
  • Odysseus' voice was grim with resignation. I knew what he meant. The Fates had him in their yoke again.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • "But we can't give up." Thomas said it in a matter-of-fact tone, as a resigned repeat of what Minho had said a moment earlier.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • Eddie noticed the resigned look on the Blue Man's face.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesirable as unavoidable
  • Will I let her fall to her death, or will I resign myself to being factionless?   (source)
    resign = accept something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • Resigned to his fate, he gazed into the bear's eyes...   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • She seemed resigned to the fact that I had a major talent for ticking off the gods.   (source)
    resigned = to have accepted as unavoidable
  • "Who started it?" asked Atticus, in resignation.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • The assistant director seems resigned to an impasse and pulls a thick perfect-bound stack of paper from a drawer and begins to read.   (source)
    resigned = accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • I turned around with elaborate resignation.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • As she buried one child after another her sorrow gave way to despair and then to grim resignation.   (source)
  • Resignation to the past, defiance of the present, hope for the future-   (source)
  • Resignation and despair settled over the household that evening, as though, Kit thought, it were the eve of that Doomsday that the minister warned of in Sabbath Meeting.   (source)
  • Though she knows it's not his fault, she can't help but associate him, at times, with a sense of resignation, with the very life she has resisted, has struggled so mightily to leave behind.   (source)
    resignation = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • In time she grew resigned to this.   (source)
    resigned = accepting of something undesired as unavoidable
  • Flavius badly wants to use his own trademark purple lipstick on me but resigns himself to a pink as they begin to color my face and nails.   (source)
    resigns = accepts something undesired as unavoidable
  • She looked him in the eye and Arthur thought he detected the tiniest resigned shrug.   (source)
    resigned = indicating acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • What the hive-queen felt was sadness, a sense of resignation. She had not thought these words as she saw the humans coming to kill, but it was in words that Ender understood her: They did not forgive us, she thought. We will surely die.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • All the cows were lined up, packed in their stalls, staring at us mutely as we walked by, with that same look in their eyes, fear and resignation and something else.   (source)
  • Resigning himself to a miserable day, he...   (source)
    resigning = accepting something undesired as unavoidable
  • a fate I had fully resigned myself to.   (source)
    resigned = reconciled (in the sense of having accepted it as unavoidable even though I considered it undesirable)
  • Tashi didn't want to do it, but to make her people feel better, she's resigned.   (source)
    resigned = accepting something undesired as the lesser of evils
  • ...resigned to life without aunts, cousins, children.   (source)
    resigned = Having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • Some carried themselves with a sort of wistful resignation, others with pride or stiff soldierly discipline or good humor or macho zeal.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • She seemed to swing between worry and fatalistic resignation.   (source)
    resignation = accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • Over the years Paul had grown more and more resigned to the fact that he could not read stories as he had when he was a kid; by becoming a writer of them himself, he had condemned himself to a life of dissection.   (source)
    resigned = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • But then she seems to resign, to throw her hands up in surrender.   (source)
    resign = accept something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • I know you don't want to hear me say so, but it's the truth, and you'd better resign yourself to it.   (source)
  • Mother Bear suffered those beatings with mute resignation.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • "You thought he was cute," said Simon, sounding resigned.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • I was not given a number that first day, but none the less I slept all night, resigned to my fate, although my companions were almost out of their minds with anxiety.   (source)
  • Aunt Queen's shoulders drooped a bit then, and she said with resignation, "But unfortunately, this ain't one of them."   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • I was beginning to resign myself. If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, as long as I possibly could.   (source)
    resign = accept something undesirable as unavoidable
  • She had become resigned to her daughters' odd and willful ways.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • Vanger gestured in resignation.   (source)
    resignation = accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • Eventually she tires of directing her speech outward and closes her mouth in apparent resignation.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • For the prisoner was not as unconcerned as he appeared to be, or as resigned; he intended taking every step possible to avoid "a ride on the Big Swing."   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • Outrage flashes across the horse girl's face, replaced almost instantly by hostile resignation.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • Too bad. I should have to resign myself; I could live with only one leg.   (source)
    resign = accept something undesired as unavoidable
  • She waits a long time, and then with resignation starts to put away her things.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • Delia was watching her, too, a resigned expression on her face, before turning her attention back to me.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • ...she said with a resigned expression.   (source)
  • Jason asked in a bored but resigned tone, "Where do we have to go, and what do we have to do?"   (source)
  • She resigned herself to waiting until the rain stopped and...   (source)
    resigned = made herself accept something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • She'd sighed, resigned. "Once you make up your mind, there is no reasoning with you."   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • And, as in the rainstorms, his misery increased to a pitch and then was gradually replaced by fatigue and resignation.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • Cristian said he understood, and resigned himself to shelving the rocket.   (source)
    resigned = accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • ...didn't seem happy about the arrangement, but looked resigned.   (source)
    resigned = as though he had accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • He picks up a stack of papers, which I assume are handouts on rules and procedures, with a measured amount of boredom and resignation.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • Fumi is resigned to not coming with us.   (source)
    resigned = accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • Yossarian stepped out of the way with resignation finally when he saw it was hopeless to try to reason with him.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • There was none of the doubt she had shown before. ...I think she was resigned.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • My mother cried when she kissed her sons goodbye, but she was resigned.   (source)
  • ...he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life.   (source)
    resigned = gave up (accepting something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils)
  • He gives a resigned shrug and...   (source)
    resigned = as though having accepted something unpleasant as unavoidable
  • A few days after we had resumed talking, Danny told me that he had resigned himself to experimental psychology and was even beginning to enjoy it.   (source)
    resigned = accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • In a gesture that was both weary and resigned,   (source)
    resigned = indicating the acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • I felt an anger at Mark that almost scorched me, raw, but it faded over the days, as the resignation set in.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • Her footsteps as she came through the hall sounded more resigned than angry.   (source)
    resigned = like someone who had accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • There's a ship leaving the harbor, its whistle resigned as an abbot in prayer,   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • It was stupid, I decided, to resign myself to being another Auntie Braxton.   (source)
    resign = accept something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • waiting for school to start, like prisoners resigned to execution   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • ...he sensed the answer to his question by the look of resignation on the man's face.   (source)
  • GEORGE (Resignedly): Yes, Martha.   (source)
    resignedly = in a manner indicating that he has accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • She stuck a hand in one boot and found the inside damp. resigned, she hunted for her sneakers.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesirable as the lesser of evils
  • The man's posture suggested a prisoner resigned to execution rather than a willing combatant.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • Then there are the ones who have not resigned themselves, who still try for an effect of glamour.   (source)
    resigned = accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • If we ever managed to leave, price to lift that mass to Luna would hurt--I was resigned to abandoning a p-suit with years more wear in it   (source)
    resigned = accept something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • It was as if, once she'd resigned herself to her new world, something had taken her over — a drive to make it hers.   (source)
    resigned = accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • And in the hospital, don't you remember the doctor's face, the look of quiet resignation upon it, and the way he hesitated an instant before answering your questions?   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • (Resigned and quiet).   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • They took a look at the board and resigned the game.   (source)
    resigned = surrendered (gave up--accepted something undesired as unavoidable)
  • ...with a contented resignation that comes normally to a man only at the end of a long and busy life,   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • Sitting there, listening to Larry tell me these wretched things with such straightforward resignation and equanimity, I tried to still the turmoil in my brain.   (source)
  • Resigned to the inevitable, he was willing himself to death.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesirable as unavoidable
  • DAVENPORT sits, resigned but nervous.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted what is about to happen
  • Mary, meanwhile, still looked dazed and resigned to a silent, unflinching suffering.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
  • She went sad, resigned.   (source)
    resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • He has a gift of resigned loyalty without hope of reward.   (source)
    resigned = accept something undesired as unavoidable
  • It was nearly a month before she resigned herself to it.   (source)
    resigned = accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
  • All we can do is try to be resigned -- again.   (source)
    resigned = accepting as inevitable something undesired
  • During the next speech CROMWELL straightens up and folds arms resignedly   (source)
    resignedly = like one who accepted something unpleasant as unavoidable
  • ...his awe and defeat and resignation and acceptance.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • She walked obliquely away across the grass as though trying to get rid of him, then seemed to resign herself to having him at her side.   (source)
    resign = accept something undesired as unavoidable
  • "Yes, we're off to-morrow," said Bernard on whose face the Savage remarked a new expression of determined resignation.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
  • Their figures are bent, their faces full of grief, despair, haste, and resignation.   (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
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