All 9 Uses

resignation
in
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne trnsl by M - 45 chptrs
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I had to be resigned and to wait six long hours.
Chpt 40 *

resigned = accepting of something undesired as unavoidable
I was the happiest of men; for my pretty Virlandaise, resigning her place as ward, took her position in the old house on the Konigstrasse in the double capacity of niece to my uncle and wife to a certain happy youth.
Chpt 45 *

resigning = quit
Was I resigned?†
Chpt 8
For the time we must be resigned to wait for the honour of being presented to him.†
Chpt 9
The women looked as sad and as resigned as the men; their faces were agreeable but expressionless, and they wore gowns and petticoats of dark 'vadmel'; as maidens, they wore over their braided hair a little knitted brown cap; when married, they put around their heads a coloured handkerchief, crowned with a peak of white linen.†
Chpt 9
My uncle bore them with the angry impatience of a man obliged to own his weakness; Hans with the resignation of his passive nature; I, I confess, with complaints and expressions of despair.†
Chpt 21
Then must we resign ourselves to destruction?†
Chpt 21
I was therefore going with as much resignation as I could find to resume my accustomed place on the raft, when my uncle laid his hand upon my shoulder.†
Chpt 37
I made a movement intended to express resignation.†
Chpt 37

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."