resignation

resignation (Passive acceptance), noun animus submissus, capitulation, deference, docility, endurance, fatalism, forbearance, fortitude, lack of commlaint, lack of resistance, longanimity, meekness, obedience, passiveness, passivity, patience, submission, submissiveness, sufferance, surrender, tolerance, toleration, yeilding

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resignation (Relinquishment), noun abandonment, abdicatio, abdication, abjuration, abjurement, cession, departure, evacuation, forsaking, giving up, leaving, quitting, renouncement, renunciation, retirement, secession, surrender, termination, vacation, withdrawal, yielding
Foreign phrases: Resignatio est juris proprii spontanea refutatio.Resignation is a spontaneous relinquishment of one's own right.

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See also: abdication, acceptance, capitulation, cession, desertion, longanimity, renunciation, sufferance, tolerance

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RESIGNATION. The act of an officer by which he declines his office, and renounces the further right to use it. It differs from abdication. (q.v.)
     2. As offices are held at the will of both parties, if the resignation of a officer be not accepted, he remains in office. 4 Dev. R. 1.