resignedness (noun)

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• resignedness — noun see resign …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• resignedness — noun The state or condition of being resigned (passively accepting a situation) …   Wiktionary

• resignedness — noun see resigned …   Useful english dictionary

• resign — verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French resigner, from Latin resignare, literally, to unseal, cancel, from re + signare to sign, seal more at sign Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. relegate, consign; especially to give (oneself)… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• resign — verb 1》 voluntarily leave a job or position of office. 2》 (be resigned or resign oneself to) accept that something undesirable cannot be avoided. 3》 archaic surrender oneself to another s guidance. Derivatives resigned adjective resignedly adverb …   English new terms dictionary

• resignation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Giving up Nouns 1. resignation, demission, retirement, abdication, withdrawal, surrender, quitting; relinquishment. See submission. 2. resignedness, patience, forbearance, long suffering, sufferance,… …   English dictionary for students

• acquiescence — I noun accedence, acceptance, accession, accordance, acknowledgment, adsensus, agreement, allowance, assent, compliance, concession, concordance, concurrence, consent, grant, implied consent, nonresistance, observance, passive agreement, passive… …   Law dictionary

• capitulation — I noun abandonment, acquiescence, assent, compliance, consent, docility, giving way, nonresistance, obedience, passiveness, passivity, recedence, recession, relinquishment, resignation, resignedness, self abnegation, submission, submissiveness,… …   Law dictionary

• resigned — /rəˈzaɪnd / (say ruh zuynd) adjective 1. submissive or acquiescent. 2. characterised by or indicative of resignation. –phrase 3. resigned to, with one s mind made up to accept. –resignedly /rəˈzaɪnədli/ (say ruh zuynuhdlee), adverb –resignedness… …