All 11 Uses of
resignation
in
Gone with the Wind
- "The Calvert boys have been blabbing again," Gerald said resignedly, "else you'd not be knowing the amount.†
Chpt 1.2
- Mammy sighed resignedly, beholding herself outguessed.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- As for Scarlett, she had long ago become resigned to Melanie's habit of seeing good in everyone.†
Chpt 2.13
- He went on speaking and there was a quality in his voice, a sadness, a resignation, that increased her fear until every vestige of anger and disappointment was blotted out.†
Chpt 2.15
- So, only half resigned to her fate, she spent most of her time with Scarlett, vicariously enjoying a pregnancy not her own.†
Chpt 4.41
- Now, he was only resigned.†
Chpt 5.53
- A resigned striped kitten was clutched to her breast.†
Chpt 5.56
- That October Governor Bullock resigned his office and fled from Georgia.†
Chpt 5.58
- He hastily and secretly decamped, arranging that his resignation would not become public until he was safely in the North.†
Chpt 5.58
- The Gelerts and Hundons, evidently apprised of Bullock's departure before his resignation became public, left town abruptly, disappearing into that oblivion from which they had come.†
Chpt 5.58
- This wrongness went even deeper than Bonnie's death, for now the first unbearable anguish was fading into resigned acceptance of her loss.†
Chpt 5.60
Definition:
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(resignation as in: accepted it with resignation) acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils