All 3 Uses of
resignation
in
Moby Dick
- Besides, my boy, he has a wife—not three voyages wedded—a sweet, resigned girl.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- …therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat—oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own…†
Chpt 49-51
- Such an unwonted bustle was he in that the staid Starbuck, his official superior, quietly resigned to him for the time the sole management of affairs.†
Chpt 64-66
Definition:
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(resignation as in: accepted it with resignation) acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils