All 5 Uses
resignation
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In the Time of the Butterflies
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- She had become resigned to her daughters' odd and willful ways.
Chpt 2.8 *resigned = having accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
- But she's long since resigned herself to Novembers.†
Chpt 1.1
- Pedrito wiped his face with his big hands and bowed his head, resigned.†
Chpt 2.8
- By the time she said it the third time, she and I both knew she was resigned to feeding Judas at her table.†
Chpt 3.10
- But all I felt was numb, resigned, sitting in that stuffy office.†
Chpt 3.12
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."