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resignation
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resignation as in:  submitted her resignation

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    She said that if I don't resign, I will be fired.
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    I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.  (source)
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    I came here for one reason only: to announce my resignation from all matters regarding the Westing estate, with sincere apologies to all concerned.  (source)
    resignation = quitting (from the job or position)
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    She would tell Gates that if he didn't reinstate Lucy Friedman she would resign.  (source)
    resign = quit her job
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    "I have resigned," Lidewij said after a moment.  (source)
    resigned = quit (a job)
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    He lampooned Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden, called for the resignation of Attorney General Edwin Meese, lambasted Bible-thumpers of the Christian right, urged vigilance against the Soviet threat, castigated the Japanese for hunting whales, and defended Jesse Jackson as a viable presidential candidate.  (source)
    resignation = quitting from his position
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    John Carroll, the man who hired me, is resigning to avoid one more day of battling the hog butchers in Chicago.  (source)
    resigning = quitting (his job)
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    She decides one last case before she resigns as a judge for the People's Court.  (source)
    resigns = quits (leaves her job)
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    I have resign'd to you my charge.  (source)
    resign'd = quit (a job or position)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled resigned.
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    Quiet arrests made, sudden resignations in Washington.  (source)
    resignations = quitting of jobs
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    I am a princess now. ... And I don't think it's the kind of thing you can resign from!  (source)
    resign = quit
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    "The Hegemon resigned," said Dink.  (source)
    resigned = quit (a job)
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    Mr. Lucius Malfoy, a governor of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the enchanted car crashed earlier this year, called today for Mr. Weasley's resignation.  (source)
    resignation = quitting from his position at work
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resignation as in:  accepted it with resignation

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It wasn't her first choice, but she accepted it with resignation.
resignation = (accepted) something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
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    She was resigned to being embarrassed by her younger brother.
    resigned = with acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
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    Beatrice's face had become a mask of grim resignation.  (source)
    resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
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    Odysseus' voice was grim with resignation. I knew what he meant. The Fates had him in their yoke again.  (source)
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    Unable to sleep, I resigned myself to await his return by counting states.  (source)
    resigned = accepted something undesirable as unavoidable
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    Warming himself ever so briefly had shaken away the lethargy and resignation and restored his will to survive.  (source)
    resignation = inclination to accept defeat as unavoidable
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    Will I let her fall to her death, or will I resign myself to being factionless?  (source)
    resign = accept something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
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    "Well," Cherry said resignedly, "they've spotted us."  (source)
    resignedly = as though having accepted something undesirable as unavoidable
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    Resigning himself to a miserable day, he...  (source)
    Resigning = accepting something undesired as unavoidable
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    How vain and inconclusive arguments Are those, which make thee beat thy wings below For statues one, and one for aphorisms Was hunting; this the priesthood follow'd, that By force or sophistry aspir'd to rule; To rob another, and another sought By civil business wealth; one moiling lay Tangled in net of sensual delight, And one to witless indolence resign'd; What time from all these empty things escap'd, With Beatrice, I thus gloriously Was rais'd aloft, and made the guest of heav'n.†  (source)
    resign'd = accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
    editor's notes: More commonly this would be written resigned.
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    Flavius badly wants to use his own trademark purple lipstick on me but resigns himself to a pink as they begin to color my face and nails.  (source)
    resigns = accepts something undesired as unavoidable
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    Then, for a variety of reasons, there came a spate of deaths, promotions, resignations, retirements.†  (source)
    resignations = undesired things accepted as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
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    The word its life resigneth in the pen, Leather and wax usurp the mastery then.†  (source)
    resigneth = accepts something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She resigneth" in older English, today we say "She resigns."
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    I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.  (source)
    unresigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unresigned means not and reverses the meaning of resigned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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