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resignation Noun 1. the act of resigning 2. a formal document stating one's intention to resign 3. passive endurance of difficulties: full of quiet resignation
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resignation noun 1. leaving, notice, retirement, departure, surrender, abandonment, abdication, renunciation, relinquishment noun 2. acceptance, patience, submission, compliance, endurance, fortitude, passivity, acquiescence, forbearing, sufferance, nonresistance << OPPOSITE resistance Translations resignation [rɛzɪgˈneɪʃən] resign n (from post) → Rücktritt m; (state of mind) → Resignation f; to tender one's resignation resign → seine Kündigung einreichen resignation [rɛzɪgˈneɪʃən] n → dimissioni fpl; rassegnazione f; to tender one's resignation → dare le dimissioni How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Joy and peace are not resignation; resignation is the willing endurance of a pain that is not allayed, that you don't expect to be allayed. Following on the Odes, we have much written in the same style, more often than not by women, or songs possibly written to be sung by them, always in a minor key, fraught with sadness, yet full of quiet resignation and pathos. As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanour and full command of nerve which was essential to a finished undertaker, he had many opportunities of observing the beautiful resignation and fortitude with which some strong-minded people bear their trials and losses. |
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