All 4 Uses
resignation
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
(Edited)
- the American president Richard Nixon had resigned over a scandal.
p. 64.6 *resigned = given up a position or job
- Mariam, who had never heard of Nixon, or the scandal that had forced him to resign, did not say anything back.
p. 64.7resign = quit (a position or job)
- On her face, a look of concession. Of resignation.
p. 189.8resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
- And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on.
p. 411.2 *resigned = accepted something undesired as unavoidable
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."