All 6 Uses of
resignation
in
Tender is the Night
- first year at West Point—that year during which no cadet can resign and from which none ever recovers
Chpt 1.12 *resign = quit (a position or job)
- Resignedly Abe shook hands with Rosemary; he composed his face slowly, holding her hand a long time and forming sentences that did not emerge.†
Chpt 1.24resignedly = with acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
- Abe shook his head resignedly.†
Chpt 1.24
- he has been in a very religious and resigned mood from the beginning of his illness.
Chpt 3.2 *resigned = with acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
- He tried breaking into other dialogues, but it was like continually shaking hands with a glove from which the hand had been withdrawn—so finally, with a resigned air of being among children, he devoted his attention entirely to the champagne.†
Chpt 1.7
- In the taxi with Dick and Collis Clay—they were dropping Collis, and Dick was taking Rosemary to a tea from which Nicole and the Norths had resigned in order to do the things Abe had left undone till the last—in the taxi Rosemary reproached him.†
Chpt 1.16
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