Both Uses of
resignation
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- here (He chooses a third, resignedly): The sonnet to Phillis!†
Act 2resignedly = with acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
- Resign yourself, and this obedience
Will be by Heaven well recompensed.Act 3 *resign = accept something undesired as unavoidable
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