All 4 Uses of
resignation
in
Pygmalion
- MRS. PEARCE [only half resigned to it] Very well, sir. It's for you to say.
Act 2 *resigned = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
- HIGGINS [resignedly] It don't matter, anyhow.†
Act 3resignedly = with acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
- MRS. PEARCE [resigning herself] Serve you right, Mr. Higgins.†
Act 2
- DOOLITTLE [with melancholy resignation] Yes, ma'am; I'm expected to provide for everyone now, out of three thousand a year.†
Act 5
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."