All 11 Uses
resignation
in
Harry Potter (#5) and the Order of the Phoenix
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- "If you resign," said Harry testily, "there'll only be three players left on the team."
Chpt 19 *resign = quit (the team)
- Resigned to the worst, he set off for Snape's office after dinner.
Chpt 28 *resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable
- 'Listening to the news,' said Harry in a resigned voice.†
Chpt 1
- Well, you don't just hand in your resignation to Voldemort.†
Chpt 6
- Wizengamot elders Griselda Marchbanks and Tiberius Ogden have resigned in protest at the introduction of the post of Inquisitor to Hogwarts.†
Chpt 15
- I'm going to resign first thing tomorrow.†
Chpt 19
- 'Oh, all righ',' Hagrid said in a resigned voice.†
Chpt 20
- I dunno why Angelina won't just let me resign.†
Chpt 25
- 'Angelina still won't let him resign,' Ginny said, as though reading Harry's mind.†
Chpt 26
- Cowardice, that's what it was...despicable cowardice...if I wasn't worried what would happen to you students without me, I'd resign in protest.'†
Chpt 32
- 'Oh, very well,' he said, looking resigned.†
Chpt 38
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) 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."