verb
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To sign again; to provide one's signature again.
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(by extension) To sign a contract renewing or restarting a professional relationship, such as that of a professional athlete with a sports team.
verb
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To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
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To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
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To quit (a job or position).
example
He resigned the crown to follow his heart.
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To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
example
After fighting for so long, she finally resigned to her death.
adjective
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Characterized by resignation or acceptance.
Examples of resigned in a Sentence
I tried to appear resigned to defeat.
I was surprised when Alex resigned and moved up here.
He looked comically resigned to the idea.
He resigned office on the 23rd of January 1 793, two days after the king's execution.
He had been quiet all week, obviously resigned to the fact that she was going to run things her way.
Jonny looked apprehensive yet resigned, as if he'd known this was coming.
With a resigned sigh, he agreed to attempt this journey I was begging him to take.
When war was actually begun, Hastings officially recorded his previous resolution to have resigned, in order to repudiate responsibility for measures which he had always opposed.
Hadn't she resigned herself to being the ugly duckling years ago?
On a similar occasion the disease returned; with difficulty he reached Hamadan, where, finding the disease gaining ground, he refused to keep up the regimen imposed, and resigned himself to his fate.
Dr Smith resigned his chair at Lane Seminary, and entered the Congregational ministry.
She sighed, resigned to the fact that she would stick out no matter what she wore.
At the Council of Salisbury in 1116 the English king ordered Thurstan to submit, but instead he resigned his archbishopric, although this did not take effect.
Reprisals on the part of the subadar were followed by war, and, annoyed at the failure of his pacific schemes, the governor resigned and returned to England in 1764.
Her elder son resigned his title and estates, and became a Jesuit under the name of the Abbe d'Orleans, while the younger, after leading a debauched life, was killed leading the attack in the passage of the Rhine in 1673.
Rivadavia resigned, and Vicente Lopez, a Federalist, was elected to succeed him, but was speedily displaced by Manuel Dorrego (1827), another representative of the same party.
In 1843 he was nominated by Sir George Gipps, the governor, to a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Council; owing to a difference with Gipps he resigned his seat, but was elected shortly afterwards for Sydney.
She recalled clearly the decision she'd forced him to make and kicking him out of her bed, the moment he resigned his soul to her to save his friend's life.
Dean was close enough that he could smell the musk of her freshly washed body as she took a deep breath and let out a long and resigned sigh.
He was resigned to quietly reading a book until Mrs. Porter the housekeeper showed up a day early, accommodating a family wedding, and Dean's peace began competing with the sounds of a vacuum cleaner and Mrs. Porter's radio music, even worse junk than Fred's usual selections.
Urquiza at this juncture resigned the presidency, and Doctor Santiago Derqui was elected president of the fourteen provinces with the seat of government at Parana; while Urquiza became once more governor of Entre Rios, and Mitre was appointed governor of Buenos Aires.
He then definitely resigned public employment and devoted himself to the study of Greek.
They resigned their positions as councillors of state, and expressed their grievances personally to Margaret and by letter to the king in Madrid, asking for the dismissal of Granvelle.
At this crisis, in January 1138, Anacletus died, and a successor elected by his faction, as Victor IV., resigned after two months.
He urged Fairfax to attack the Scots at once in their own country and to forestall their The invasion; but Fairfax refused and resigned, and battles of Cromwell was appointed by parliament, on the 26th Dunbar of June 1650, commander-in-chief of all the forces and of the Commonwealth.
With a resigned sigh, she opened the 'Alex' icon and deleted yesterday's message before starting another.
Resigned, Jade peeled off his shirt, the sense of triumph making him feel sick to his stomach.
My letters are so small none will ever see my missive, but there it will remain and give me strength for what I am now resigned I must do.
Resigned to the inquisition, he settled down in his chair with two cans of beer and a piece of apple pie, devouring the pie with a combination of guilt and gusto.
He entered the Naval Academy from New York in 1857, but resigned in March 1861.
After a few years' residence at Wilna he resigned his appointment to participate in a scientific expedition projected by the Russian government, and upon the relinquishment of this undertaking became librarian to the elector of Mainz.
He resigned the crown to his brother Ramiro and went into a religious house.
Princess Patricia of Connaught resigned her royal title on her marriage, and elected to be known as Lady Patricia Ramsay.
From 1879 to 1884 he was Cavendish professor of experimental physics in the university of Cambridge, in succession to Clerk Maxwell; and in 1887 he accepted the post of professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, which he resigned in 1905.
On the arrival of Amadeus in Spain, Ruiz Zorilla became minister of public works for a short time, and resigned by way of protesting against Serrano and Topete entering the councils of the new king.
On receiving -the order to return, Pepe, after hesitating for some time between his oath to the king and his desire to fight for Italy, finally resigned his commission and crossed the P0 with a few thousand men, the rest of his force returning south.
Venice; but on the 7th of July the assembly declared in favor of fusion with Piedmont, and Manin, who had been elected president resigned his powers to the royal com- Danicle Mania and missioners.
Capponi resigned in October 1848, and Leopold reluctantly consented to a democratic ministry led by Guerrazzi and Montanelli, the former a very ambitious and unscrupulous man, the latter honest but fantastic. Following the Roman example, a constituent assembly was demanded to vote on union with Rome and eventually with the rest of Italy.
But DAzeglio was not equal to the situation, and he, too, resigned in November 1852; whereupon the king appointed Cavour prime minister, a position which with short intervals he held until his death.
Da Bormida, the minister for foreign affairs, resigned nab rather than agree to the proposal, and other statesmen ana the were equally opposed to it.
Victor Emmanuel regretfully signed the peace preliminaries, adding, however, pour ce qui me concerne (which meant that he made no undertaking with regard to central Italy), and Cavour resigned office.
Although he had resigned, he remained In reality the emperor was contemplating an Etrurian kingdom with the prince at its head.
I was resigned it was my duty to explain the situation, with or without Howie's input, but Betsy interrupted before I could begin.
The next morning—Sunday—Cynthia's mood climbed to somewhere between a blue funk and resigned neutrality.
Lay, who held the post until 1863, when he resigned owing to a disagreement with the Chinese government in connexion with the Lay-Osborn fleet.
Count Ilya Rostov had resigned the position of Marshal of the Nobility because it involved him in too much expense, but still his affairs did not improve.
He at once resigned his commission, and without waiting for it to be accepted took leave of absence and went to Moscow.
In 758 Eadberht resigned the kingdom to his son Oswulf, and became a monk.
On his death the mother resigned, though not without a struggle, the care of Aurore to her grandmother, Mme.
Waiting only for the decisive victory of Buxar over the allied forces of Bengal and Oudh, he resigned his seat and sailed for England in November 1764.