All 6 Uses of
resignation
in
Childhood's End
- Well, I should have expected it," said Joe resignedly.†
Chpt 3resignedly = with acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
- We're getting nowhere," he said resignedly.†
Chpt 3
- ...with a contented resignation that comes normally to a man only at the end of a long and busy life,
Chpt 23 *resignation = acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable
- George resigned himself gloomily to whatever nonsense was coming.†
Chpt 8
- So this, thought Jan, with a resignation that lay beyond all sadness, was the end of man.†
Chpt 23
- Whether it had ended in despair or resignation, Jan would never know.†
Chpt 23
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