All 6 Uses

resignation
in
Tender is the Night
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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)
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breaking into other dialogues, but it was like continually shaking hands with a glove from which the hand had been withdrawn—so finally, with a resigned air of being among children, he devoted his attention entirely to the champagne.†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
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 1.24
Abe shook his head resignedly.†
Chpt 1.24

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)
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."