All 19 Uses of
resignation
in
David Copperfield
- I never knew my mother afterwards to give an opinion on any matter, without first appealing to Miss Murdstone, or without having first ascertained by some sure means, what Miss Murdstone's opinion was; and I never saw Miss Murdstone, when out of temper (she was infirm that way), move her hand towards her bag as if she were going to take out the keys and offer to resign them to my mother, without seeing that my mother was in a terrible fright.†
Chpt 4-6
- Sometimes, I remember, I resigned myself to thoughts of home and Peggotty; and to endeavouring, in a confused blind way, to recall how I had felt, and what sort of boy I used to be, before I bit Mr. Murdstone: which I couldn't satisfy myself about by any means, I seemed to have bitten him in such a remote antiquity.†
Chpt 4-6
- As to his liver,' said the Old Soldier resignedly, 'that, of course, he gave up altogether, when he first went out!'†
Chpt 19-21 *
- — "that I have undergone so much in this distant place, as to have decided to leave it at all hazards; on sick leave, if I can; on total resignation, if that is not to be obtained.†
Chpt 19-21
- I construed this remark into an indication of a wish that he should have my place, so I blushingly offered to resign it.†
Chpt 19-21
- 'What do you say, Daisy?' inquired Steerforth, laughing, and resigning his seat.†
Chpt 22-24
- There's a song that says, "I'd crowns resign, to call her mine!"†
Chpt 25-27
- My rooms were engaged for twelve months certain: and though I still found them dreary of an evening, and the evenings long, I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee; which I seem, on looking back, to have taken by the gallon at about this period of my existence.†
Chpt 25-27
- This reminds me, not only that I expected Traddles on a certain afternoon of his own appointing, which was now come, but that Mrs. Crupp had resigned everything appertaining to her office (the salary excepted) until Peggotty should cease to present herself.†
Chpt 34-36
- He passed his hand complacently over his bald head, and said with ostentatious resignation: 'My dear, we will not anticipate the decrees of fortune.†
Chpt 34-36
- He was so peaceful and resigned — clearly had his affairs in such perfect train, and so systematically wound up — that he was a man to feel touched in the contemplation of.†
Chpt 37-39
- 'At any rate, they are all reconciled to it now, I hope?' said I. 'Ye-yes, I should say they were, on the whole, resigned to it,' said Traddles, doubtfully.†
Chpt 40-42
- 'Be it so, Clarissa!' assented Miss Lavinia resignedly — 'to me — and receiving our concurrence.†
Chpt 40-42
- But in general she resigned herself to her mother, and went where the Old Soldier would.†
Chpt 43-45
- Dora put his nose to mine, and said 'Boh!' to drive my seriousness away; but, not succeeding, ordered him into his Pagoda, and sat looking at me, with her hands folded, and a most resigned little expression of countenance.†
Chpt 46-48
- I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come.†
Chpt 52-54
- I had been so much astonished already, that I only felt a kind of resigned wonder when Mr. Littimer walked forth, reading a good book!†
Chpt 61-62
- If you have any lingering thought that I could envy the happiness you will confer; that I could not resign you to a dearer protector, of your own choosing; that I could not, from my removed place, be a contented witness of your joy; dismiss it, for I don't deserve it!†
Chpt 61-62
- I tried to show her how I had hoped I had come into the better knowledge of myself and of her; how I had resigned myself to what that better knowledge brought; and how I had come there, even that day, in my fidelity to this.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(resignation as in: accepted it with resignation) acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils