All 4 Uses
resignation
in
Zeitoun
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- She seemed to swing between worry and fatalistic resignation.
Chpt 3.17 *resignation = accepted something undesired as unavoidable
- He had resigned in 2005, a few months after the storm.
Chpt 5.47 *resigned = quit (his job)
- Realizing that no matter how much she complained, she would not be able to replace these painters with taller, Caucasian ones, the Southern belle resigned herself to watching the men, checking on them frequently.†
Chpt 1.1
- Zeitoun's family in Syria became increasingly despondent and resigned to the loss of Abdulrahman.†
Chpt 3.21
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."