resigned

[re·signed]

To resign is to quit or retire from a position. You can also resign yourself to something inevitable, like death meaning you just accept that it's going to happen.

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Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.

Adjective S.
showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"


imp. & p. p.
of Resign

a.
Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.


Resigned

Re*signed" (r?-z?nd"), a. Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.
A firm, yet cautious mind; Sincere, thought prudent; constant, yet resigned.

Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.

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Usage Examples

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

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Other Usage Examples

Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

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