To resign is to give up power, to voluntarily quit a job or come to terms with something as unavoidable.
(verb)See resign in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb
Origin: ME resignen < MFr resigner < L resignare < re-, back + signare, to sign
intransitive verb
See resign in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb re·signed, re·sign·ing, re·signs verb, transitive
Origin:
Origin: Middle English resignen
Origin: , from Old French resigner
Origin: , from Latin resignāre, to unseal
Origin: : re-, re-
Origin: + signāre, to seal (from signum, mark, seal; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots)
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