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resign'd

resign'd is the archaic form of resigned.

resign'd is the simple past and past participle of resign.

Meaning of resigned

Adjective

resigned (comparative more resigned, superlative most resigned)

  1. Characterized by resignation or acceptance.
    • If we were having this conversation 10 or 15 years ago, Ezra, we would be having it in a diagnosing a futile illness sort of way. The way that political scientists talked about this problem, the way that activists or people talk about this problem, for decades before was in a very resigned tone....2024 April 16, Jerusalem Demsas, “Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Jerusalem Demsas”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...

Meaning of resign

Verb

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

  1. (transitive) 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[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 39, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) 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.
    Synonyms:
    vacate
  4. (transitive) 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.

Forms of resign'd

comparativemore resign'd
superlativemost resign'd

Questions about resign'd

What is resign'd the archaic form of?
Resign'd is the archaic form of resigned.

Words near resign'd in the dictionary

  1. resightings
  2. resights
  3. resiglitazone
  4. resign
  5. resign oneself
  6. resign'd
  7. resignable
  8. resignal
  9. resignaled
  10. resignaling
  11. resignalled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: resign'd (page history and authors); resigned (page history and authors); resign (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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