All 6 Uses of
resignation
in
The Prince and The Pauper
- Tom replied resignedly— "The King hath said it.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- He made two or three further efforts to help himself, but being promptly forestalled each time, he finally gave up, with a sigh of resignation and a murmured "Beshrew me, but I marvel they do not require to breathe for me also!"†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- Somewhat after one in the afternoon, Tom resignedly underwent the ordeal of being dressed for dinner.
Chpt 7 (definition 1) *resignedly = with acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
- Afterwards she kept him carding wool until he began to think he had laid the good King Alfred about far enough in the shade for the present in the matter of showy menial heroisms that would read picturesquely in story-books and histories, and so he was half-minded to resign.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- And when, just after the noonday dinner, the goodwife gave him a basket of kittens to drown, he did resign.
Chpt 19 (definition 2) *resign = quit (from a position or job)
- At least he was just going to resign—for he felt that he must draw the line somewhere, and it seemed to him that to draw it at kitten-drowning was about the right thing—when there was an interruption.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (resignation as in: accepted it with resignation) acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
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(2) (resignation as in: submitted her resignation) to quit -- especially a job or position; or a document expressing such an act