Both Uses
resignation
in
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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- GEORGE (Resignedly): Yes, Martha.
Act 1 *resignedly = in a manner indicating that he has accepted something undesired as unavoidable
- GEORGE: (Resigned and exasperated) All right.†
Act 1
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."