resign
VerbVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ɹɪˈzaɪn//
- //ɹiːˈsaɪn//
To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
Verb
- 1
To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
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[…].
- 2
To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
- 3
To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status.
I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.
He resigned the crown to follow his heart.
- 4
To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
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?
Herkunft
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.
Verb
- 1
Variante von re-signAlternative spelling of re-sign.
Lastly, a note that I have resigned my GPG key to extend the expiration date.
Herkunft
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English sign English resign From re- + sign.
Formen
- Präteritum
- resigned
- Partizip II
- resigned
- Partizip I
- resigning
- 3. Person Singular
- resigns
resign · To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
resignation · The act of resigning.resigned · Characterized by resignation or acceptance.resist · To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.