resignation
/ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/ noun B2- The act of resigning. · Jane tendered her resignation to the board of directors, but they refused.
- A written or oral declaration that one resigns. · hand in one's resignation
- An uncomplaining acceptance of something undesirable but unavoidable. · With resignation I acknowledged that after the accident I would not be able to ski again.
- The form by which a vassal returns the feu into the hands of a superior.
Plural resignations
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Resignation to inevitable evils is the duty of us all: the peculiar duty of a young man who has been so fortunate as I have been, in early preferment; and, I trust, I am resigned.
Perhaps not the less so from feeling a doubt of my positive happiness had my fair cousin honoured me with her hand; for I have often observed, that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.
Holmes shrugged his shoulders with a glance of comic resignation towards the Colonel, and the talk drifted away into less dangerous channels.
“Well, I hope the pride and justification and the rest of it will come before we all get our death of cold,” said the London detective with comic resignation.
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