All 5 Uses of
resignation
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- There was resigned regret that the new flat was not as nice as their Lorimer Street home.
Chpt 14 *resigned = accepted something undesired as unavoidable
- all of whom expected the city reading job when and if Miss Armstrong resigned.
Chpt 44 *resigned = quit (a job)
- He sighed in pretended resignation.†
Chpt 1
- Sighing, she resigned herself to a sinless life.†
Chpt 44
- And let resignation creep into it.†
Chpt 51
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."