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RESIGNATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A formal document giving notice of your intention to resign
Example:
he submitted his resignation as of next month
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("resignation" is a kind of...):
document; papers; written document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resignation"):
abdication; stepping down (the act of abdicating)
Derivation:
resign (give up or retire from a position)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("resignation" is a kind of...):
speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resignation"):
abdication; stepping down (a formal resignation and renunciation of powers)
renouncement; renunciation (an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned)
Derivation:
resign (leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily)
resign (give up or retire from a position)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Acceptance of despair
Synonyms:
resignation; surrender
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("resignation" is a kind of...):
despair (the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resignation"):
defeatism (acceptance of the inevitability of defeat)
Derivation:
resign (accept as inevitable)
Context examples:
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.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The moment Miss Scatcherd withdrew after afternoon school, I ran to Helen, tore it off, and thrust it into the fire: the fury of which she was incapable had been burning in my soul all day, and tears, hot and large, had continually been scalding my cheek; for the spectacle of her sad resignation gave me an intolerable pain at the heart.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When reason returned, she would remonstrate and endeavour to inspire me with resignation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices that ennoble us most.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
For, as quick to hear her sobbing as she had been to hear her sister's faintest whisper, her mother came to comfort her, not with words only, but the patient tenderness that soothes by a touch, tears that were mute reminders of a greater grief than Jo's, and broken whispers, more eloquent than prayers, because hopeful resignation went hand-in-hand with natural sorrow.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
—“that I have undergone so much in this distant place, as to have decided to leave it at all hazards; on sick leave, if I can; on total resignation, if that is not to be obtained.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The first few months were very happy ones, and Beth often used to look round, and say How beautiful this is! as they all sat together in her sunny room, the babies kicking and crowing on the floor, mother and sisters working near, and father reading, in his pleasant voice, from the wise old books which seemed rich in good and comfortable words, as applicable now as when written centuries ago, a little chapel, where a paternal priest taught his flock the hard lessons all must learn, trying to show them that hope can comfort love, and faith make resignation possible.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In the present instance there was no escape, and having clashed her scissors rebelliously, while protesting that she smelled thunder, she gave in, put away her work, and taking up her hat and gloves with an air of resignation, told Amy the victim was ready.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
