Both Uses of
resignation
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.†
Chpt 2
- He handed in his resignation at once—and that night the Judge suffered a relapse and died.†
Chpt 22 *
Definition:
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(resignation as in: accepted it with resignation) acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils