All 21 Uses of

resignation
in
The Fountainhead

He hoped she would resign. He could not face the thought of having to fire her.
Chpt 2.13 *

resign = quit (from her job)

Then he stood straight, but with a kind of quiet resignation,
Chpt 4.3 *

resignation = look of having accepted the need to endure (suffer through) something undesired

He went so far as to threaten us with his resignation unless you were expelled.†
Chpt 1.1

She was a meek little old lady with white hair, trembling hands and a face one could never remember, quiet, resigned and gently hopeless.†
Chpt 1.6

Roark looked at the sketches, and even though he wanted to throw them at Keating's face and resign, one thought stopped him: the thought that it was a building and that he had to save it, as others could not pass a drowning man without leaping in to the rescue.†
Chpt 1.7

It was as if his huge body were resigned to the conventions of a prosaic civilization and to its drab garments, but the oval of his chest and stomach sallied forth, flying the colors of his inner soul.†
Chpt 1.10

And it made them sit silently, facing each other, in astonishment, in resignation.†
Chpt 1.15

When the term of her vacation expired, she went to the office of the Banner in order to resign.†
Chpt 2.5

She stood before him, her face raised; her lips were not drawn, but closed softly, yet the shape of her mouth was too definite on her face, a shape of pain and tenderness, and resignation.†
Chpt 2.14

She came to visit him often and she was always polite to Dominique, with a strange, beaten air of resignation.†
Chpt 3.2

He had not chosen to resign himself—that would have been a positive decision—it had merely happened and he had let it happen.†
Chpt 4.7

ROARK knew that he must not show the shock of his first glance at Peter Keating—and that it was too late: he saw a faint smile on Keating's lips, terrible in its resigned acknowledgment of disintegration.†
Chpt 4.8

Toohey put his hands on the arms of his chair, then lifted his palms, from the wrists, and clasped the wood again, a little slap of resigned finality.†
Chpt 4.14

Definitions:

(1) (resignation as in: submitted her resignation)
to quit -- especially a job or position; or a document expressing such an act
(2) (resignation as in: accepted it with resignation)
acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
(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."