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resignation
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The Plague
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... and poverty had taught her resignation.
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resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
But very soon those who were prisoners of the plague realized the terrible danger to which this would expose their relatives, and sadly resigned themselves to their absence.†
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This was true of those at least for whom silence was unbearable, and since the others could not find the truly expressive word, they resigned themselves to using the current coin of language, the commonplaces of plain narrative, of anecdote, and of their daily paper.†
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The silent resignation that a laborious life had given it seemed to light up with a sudden glow.†
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The furious revolt of the first weeks had given place to a vast despondency, not to be taken for resignation, though it was none the less a sort of passive and provisional acquiescence.†
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There was the same resignation, the same long-sufferance, inexhaustible and without illusions.†
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Indeed, one had the impression that even for the sufferers the frantic terror of the early phase had passed, and there was a sort of mournful resignation in their present attitude toward the disease.†
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He was saying that the total acceptance of which he had been speaking was not to be taken in the limited sense usually given to the words; he was not thinking of mere resignation or even of that harder virtue, humility.†
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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."