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Another word for resignation

resignation Synonyms

resignation

n.

Mental preparation for something unwelcome
submission, humility, passivity, patience, deference, docility, submissiveness, renunciation, self-abnegation, resignedness, acquiescence, endurance, compliance, yieldingness, unresistingness.
Antonyms resistance*, unsubmissiveness, unwillingness.
The act of resigning
retirement, departure, leaving, quitting, giving up, abdication, surrender, withdrawal, relinquishment, abandonment, vacating, tendering one's resignation, giving up office, termination of one's connection.

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Another word for resignation

noun

A giving up of a possession, claim, or right:
abandonment, abdication, demission, quitclaim, relinquishment, renunciation, surrender, waiver. See keep
The capacity of enduring hardship or inconvenience without complaint:
forbearance, long-suffering, patience, tolerance. See accept

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He looked at her long enough for her to see resignation in his gaze.
There was a look of resignation, not concern, on Cynthia's face as Dean shouldered his pack and Cynthia's camera equipment.
She spoke with total resignation, utter defeat as she looked up at me.
On the 23rd of December 1863 his resignation was cancelled, and he was assigned to the command of the military district of Etowah, with headquarters at Chattanooga.
A vote of the Italian Chamber on the 4th of February 1887, in connection with the disaster to Italian troops at Dogali, in Abyssinia, brought about the resignation of the Depretis-Robilant cabinet.

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