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resigning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resign \Re*sign"\ (r?-z?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resigned (-z?nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Resigning.] [F. r['e]signer, L. resignare to unseal, annul, assign, resign; pref. re- re- + signare to seal, stamp. See Sign, and cf. Resignation.]
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To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively.
I here resign my government to thee.
--Shak.Lament not, Eve, but patiently resign What justly thou hast lost.
--Milton.What more reasonable, than that we should in all things resign up ourselves to the will of God?
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To relinquish; to abandon.
He soon resigned his former suit.
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To commit to the care of; to consign. [Obs.]
Gentlement of quality have been sent beyong the seas, resigned and concredited to the conduct of such as they call governors.
--Evelyn.Syn: To abdicate; surrender; submit; leave; relinquish; forego; quit; forsake; abandon; renounce.
Usage: Resign, Relinquish. To resign is to give up, as if breaking a seal and yielding all it had secured; hence, it marks a formal and deliberate surrender. To relinquish is less formal, but always implies abandonment and that the thing given up has been long an object of pursuit, and, usually, that it has been prized and desired. We resign what we once held or considered as our own, as an office, employment, etc. We speak of relinquishing a claim, of relinquishing some advantage we had sought or enjoyed, of relinquishing seme right, privilege, etc. ``Men are weary with the toil which they bear, but can not find it in their hearts to relinquish it.''
--Steele. See Abdicate.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of resign English)
Usage examples of "resigning".
The humanity of his predecessors had always remitted, in some auspicious circumstance of their reign, the arrears of the public tribute, and they dexterously assumed the merit of resigning those claims which it was impracticable to enforce.
Instead of tamely resigning themselves to the secret deliberations and private views of a single person, the united councils of the Greeks were inspired by the generous enthusiasm of a popular assembly.
The next day after his arrival, he summoned Damophilus to his presence, and offered that Arian prelate the hard alternative of subscribing the Nicene creed, or of instantly resigning, to the orthodox believers, the use and possession of the episcopal palace, the cathedral of St.
Instead of resigning himself to the luxury of his harem, the shepherd king, both in peace and war, was in action and in the field.
After resigning the sovereignty of Anatolia, he fell a victim to the perfidy of his ministers, and the superior ascendant of his brother Mahomet.
The campaign was short, only six weeks from Quiroga's resignation to the day he had set for the election before resigning, and I was speaking almost every day, either on a grand network with time shared precisely with the Humanity Party, or speeches canned and sent by shuttle for later release to particular audiences.
Which means, in real terms, that you work for me—unless you’re resigning your post, in which case I’m going to have to have security throw you out, because you will no longer have clearance to be on this floor.
I grinned and bore it while I was in Starfleet, but one of the joys of resigning my commission was that I could happily burn that thing.
At this he became more hostile and told me he was thinking of resigning the Vice Presidency.
It's one reason why I sometimes think of resigning, in spite of a long stay here on Toka.
But right beside it, his mind's eye was placing another vision of Tanni growing thin and wan on his meager ensign's pension, which was all he would have if he got broken from his present job rather than resigning with honors.
Even the most conservative betting in Washington, these days, has Nixon either resigning or being impeached by the autumn of '74 -- if not for reasons directly connected to the "Watergate scandal," then because of his inability to explain how he paid for his beach-mansion at San Clemente, or why Vice President Agnew -- along with most of Nixon's original White House command staff -- is under indictment for felonies ranging from Extortion and Perjury to Burglary and Obstruction of Justice.
Just one month earlier he had sandbagged me by resigning so close to the deadline that I almost had a nervous breakdown while failing completely.
She observed its progress with composure, resigning herself to the will of God, and feeling little to regret in life.
He afterwards married a lady of some fortune at Geneva, and resigning his commission in the French service, settled on the borders of the lake, and increased the social delights of Theodore and Adeline.