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countable and uncountable, plural resignations
The act of resigning. quotations examples
I knew my Cabinet well, and despite Haig's reports that they were all holding firm I knew that there would be great pressure on them all, and great temptations, to make public demands for my resignation. That was something I had to prevent if I possibly could. I was determined not to appear to have resigned the presidency because of a consensus of staff or Cabinet opinion or because of public pressure from the people around me. For me and no less for the country, I believed that my resignation had to be seen as something that I had decided upon completely on my own.
1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973-1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, page 1064
A written or oral declaration that one resigns. examples
An uncomplaining acceptance of something undesirable but unavoidable. examples
(Scotland, law, historical) The form by which a vassal returns the feu into the hands of a superior.