All 5 Uses of

resignation
in
In Cold Blood

For the prisoner was not as unconcerned as he appeared to be, or as resigned; he intended taking every step possible to avoid "a ride on the Big Swing."
Chpt 4 *

resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable

Hickock's attorney, Harrison Smith, forty-five, six feet tall, a golfer, an Elk of exalted degree, accepted the task with resigned grace: "Someone has to do it.†
Chpt 4

Fleming and Smith withstood the onslaught in good style, particularly Fleming, who, wearing a bold red tie and an abiding smile, endured Shultz with gentlemanly resignation.†
Chpt 4

Another three years passed, and during those years two exceptionally skillful Kansas City lawyers, Joseph P. Jenkins and Robert Bingham, replaced Shultz, the latter having resigned from the case.†
Chpt 4

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."