All 5 Uses of
resignation
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- As the clock struck two, she was there, and at four she turned resignedly away.
Chpt 3.5 *resignedly = with acceptance that things are not as she hoped
- Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.†
Chpt 2.5
- He had not returned sooner, he replied, simply because he had no means of living in France, save those he had resigned; whereas, in England, he lived by giving instruction in the French language and literature.†
Chpt 3.6
- There was a hurry, too, in all his thoughts, a turbulent and heated working of his heart, that contended against resignation.†
Chpt 3.13
- If, for a moment, he did feel resigned, then his wife and child who had to live after him, seemed to protest and to make it a selfish thing.†
Chpt 3.13
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