resign English · revision 10749

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1370|origins=fro resigner|origins=la resignare}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /rɪˈzaɪn/, /rəˈzaɪn/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fro|resigner|t=to renounce, relinquish]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from Latin resignāre, to unseal, cancel, give up,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from re-, back, opposite, and signāre, to mark, make an entry (see [[sign]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998) Barnhart and Etymonline explain that resignāre meant making an entry on the credit side of an account, balancing an earlier mark and so cancelling the claim.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To give up, surrender, abandon, submit: about 1370, in Chaucer's A.B.C.;^(Barnhart 1988) to relinquish an office or right, about 1380 in the OED.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The common meaning, to give up an office or position, is first recorded before 1387, in Trevisa,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) and the intransitive use, to leave a job, from the 15th century.^(Hoad 1986) To give up one's life or soul is from 1588,^(OED 1989) and to submit oneself to an emotion or situation, ''to resign oneself to'', from 1718.^(Etymonline) ''Resignation'' is from before 1387.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1370 – to give up, submit.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * before 1387 – to give up an office; resignation.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 15th century – to resign (intransitive).^(Hoad 1986)

+ * 1718 – to resign oneself.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To give up a job or office, especially formally.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To give up a right or claim; to [[relinquish]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''resign oneself to'': to accept something as unavoidable.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[resigner]]

+ * [[resignedly]]

+ * [[resignedness]]

+ * [[resignee]]

+ * [[resignation]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sign]]

+ * [[signal]]

+ * [[design]]

+ * [[assign]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}