| 单词 |
resignment |
| 释义 |
reˈsignment Now rare. [f. as next + -ment.] The act of resigning; resignation.
c1470Harding Chron. clvii. iv, Then his title he sought By resignement and renunciacion. 1592Nobody & Someb. in Simpson Sch. Shaks. (1878) I. 330 Give up thy state to these two princely youthes, And thy resignment shal preserve thy life. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine xvii. 69 With his life [he] made resignement of the kingdome of Macedon. 1648Boyle Seraph. Love (1660) 8 That Love..which results from an entire Resignment to..the Lov'd Party. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 70 Time..begets in us that resignment of temper, which ought to have been produced by a better cause. 1825Southey Tale Paraguay Poet. Wks. VII. 22 In this resignment to their hopeless case. 1891Q. Reg. Current Hist. (Detroit) Feb. 10 It was feared that the Chancellor's resignment portended a precipitation of the inevitable war. |

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