All 7 Uses of
resignation
in
The Once and Future King
- The two horses pulled themselves up, their duty done, and began resignedly to eat the sward.†
Book 1resignedly = with acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
- He sat down resignedly upon the most comfortable part of the floor, perceiving that he was in for something like the parable of the looking-glass.†
Book 1
- The owl said resignedly, "Oh, well."
Book 1 *
- "You need not uncurl," said the Wart resignedly.†
Book 1
- King Pellinore, not without a few sighs for the good old days, was forced to resign his rights in her to the Saracen.
Book 2 *resign = give up (quit)
- His mild blue eyes, very big and round under the tarantula spectacles, gradually filmed and clouded over as he gazed at the boy, and then he turned his head away with a resigned expression, as though it was all too much for him after all.†
Book 1
- This was because its legs were tied together, like the legs of a roe deer which is to be carried home from the hunt It had given up struggling and now lay gazing into the fire with slit eyes and heaving sides, curiously resigned.†
Book 2
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