Both Uses
resignation
in
The Key, by Eudora Welty
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- The woman looked resigned for a moment to hopelessness.
*resigned = as though she had accepted something undesired as unavoidable
- He stood back, a peculiar flash of interest or of something more inscrutable, like resignation, in his lowered eyes.†
Definitions:
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(resignation as in: submitted her resignation) to quit -- especially a job or position; or a document expressing such an act
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(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."