resign
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman resigner, Middle French resigner, and its source, Latin resignāre (“to unseal, annul, assign, resign”), from re- + signāre (“to seal, stamp”). Piecewise doublet of re-sign.
Inflected forms:
form: resigns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: resigning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: resigned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: resigned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: resign
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: resign
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: resigned
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: resign
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: resignest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: resigned
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: resignedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: resigns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: resigneth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: resigned
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: resign
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: resigned
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: resign
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: resigned
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: resign
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: resigning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: resigned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And if the perfection of well-speaking might bring any glorie sutable unto a great personage, Scipio and Lelius would never have resigned the honour of their Comedies[…]unto an Affrican servant[…].
gloss: To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.
He resigned the crown to follow his heart.
To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home. Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.
gloss: To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion.
Here is a man who was resigned 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 resigned him to his fate?
Synonyms: quit
Derived words: resignable
resignation
resignatory
resignee
resigner
resignful
resignment
resign oneself
unresign
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