All 5 Uses of
resignation
in
Dubliners
- He was quite resigned.†
Chpt 1
- "He looks quite resigned," said my aunt.†
Chpt 1
- She said he just looked as if he was asleep, he looked that peaceful and resigned.
Chpt 1 *resigned = as one having accepted what could not be avoided
- We waited to see whether she would remain or go in and, if she remained, we left our shadow and walked up to Mangan's steps resignedly.†
Chpt 3
- Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(resignation as in: accepted it with resignation) acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils