resign

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To officially leave a job or position.

   I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.

2. 2
   verb

   To accept something unpleasant calmly because you cannot change it.

   After many failures, he resigned himself to his fate.

Simplified etymology

Resign entered English in the late Middle Ages from Latin resignare, meaning “unseal” or “cancel.” It belongs to the same word family as sign, ultimately from Latin signum, “mark” or “token.”

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.

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