Resignation
[rezɪg'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [,rɛzɪɡ'neʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; 'he submitted his resignation as of next month'.
(noun.) the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.).
(noun.) acceptance of despair.
Edited by Barton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.
(n.) The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as, resignation to the will and providence of God.
Typist: Psyche
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Surrender, relinquishment, cession, abandonment, renunciation, abdication.[2]. Endurance (with a submissive, religious spirit), submission, acquiescence, abasement, compliance, patience, sufferance, forbearance, fortitude, long-sufferance, long-suffering.
Editor: Rochelle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Surrender, relinquishment, forsaking, abandonment, abdication, renunciation,submission, acquiescence, patience, endurance
ANT:Retention, claim, appropriation, vindication, grasp, resistance, rebellion,murmur, dissatisfaction, discontent, contumacy, contention, protestation,remonstrance
Typist: Sam
Examples
- Her countenance expressed the deepest sorrow that is consistent with resignation. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Eternal rigidity had seized upon it in a momentary transition between fervour and resignation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Nor for heroic resignation either. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Resignation is sublime--adopt it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I trust, sir,' rejoined Mrs. Sparsit, with decent resignation, 'it is not necessary that you should do anything of that kind. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Wildeve stood, and stood longer, and breathed perplexedly, and then said to himself with resignation, Yes--by Heaven, I must go to her, I suppose! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My orisons consist in peace and good will, in resignation and hope. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She's quite enough to worrit her, as it is, without you, Tommy,' said Mrs. Cluppins, with sympathising resignation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me--a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A sentiment approaching happiness followed the total resignation of one's being to the guardianship of the world's ruler. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She indeed gained the resignation she desired. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- When reason returned, she would remonstrate, and endeavour to inspire me with resignation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He began to think it was to be, and that he could not prevent ita very promising step of the mind on its way to resignation. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And the shelter was still there: Lydgate had accepted his narrowed lot with sad resignation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They decided, when they woke again from the pure swoon, to write their resignations from the world of work there and then. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Martin