All 9 Uses of
resignation
in
Wuthering Heights
- She could not bear the notion which I had put into her head of Mr. Linton's philosophical resignation.†
p. 88.7 *
- Time brought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.†
p. 133.9
- No plan offered itself: the very exhibition of any desire to keep him would have rendered the claimant more peremptory: there was nothing left but to resign him.†
p. 147.7
- I'd rather resign her to God, and lay her in the earth before me.'†
p. 187.1
- 'Resign her to God as it is, sir,' I answered, 'and if we should lose you — which may He forbid — under His providence, I'll stand her friend and counsellor to the last.†
p. 187.1
- He opened them suddenly, and resigned the object of dispute; but, ere she had well secured it, he seized her with the liberated hand, and, pulling her on his knee, administered with the other a shower of terrific slaps on both sides of the head, each sufficient to have fulfilled his threat, had she been able to fall.'†
p. 196.8
- He took the one I had away, and ordered her to resign hers to me; she refused, and he — he struck her down, and wrenched it off the chain, and crushed it with his foot.'†
p. 204.1
- He lay an image of sadness and resignation awaiting his death.†
p. 204.8
- In her absence I began to beg for Zillah's place at the Heights, offering to resign mine to her; but he would suffer it on no account.†
p. 209.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(resignation as in: submitted her resignation) to quit -- especially a job or position; or a document expressing such an act
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(2)
(resignation as in: accepted it with resignation) acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
To resign can also more specifically mean to surrender or give up as in "I was clearly going to lose the chess game, so I resigned;" or "She resigned all pretense."