Both Uses of
resignation
in
Things Fall Apart
- As she buried one child after another her sorrow gave way to despair and then to grim resignation.
p. 77.2 *resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
- At first Ekwefi accepted her, as she had accepted others—with listless resignation.
p. 79.8
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) 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."