Sentence:  Here is a man who was <WSD>resigned</WSD> to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what <WSD>resigned</WSD> him to his fate? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable. (from 15th c.)