All 4 Uses
resignation
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
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- the Buddhist belief that resignation might lead to clear vision
Chpt 5 *resignation = acceptance of things undesired as unavoidable
- who had resigned from the Air Force
Chpt 5 *resigned = quit
- Up to this time, Mrs Nakamura and her relatives had been quite resigned and passive about the moral issue of the atomic bomb, but this rumour suddenly aroused them to more hatred and resentment of America than they had felt all through the war.†
Chpt 4
- When it appeared that Dr. Fujii might lose out in his fight for the latter view, he abruptly and disappointedly resigned.†
Chpt 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) 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."