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resignation

Roget category 757

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
5.6. General intersocial volition
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#757. Resignation

noun

resignation, retirement, abdication, renunciation, abjurationabandonment, relinquishment.

verb

resigngive up, throw uplay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retractdeny etc. 536.
abrogate etc. 756desert etc. (relinquish) 624get rid of etc. 782.
abdicatevacate, vacate one's seataccept the stewardship of the Chiltern accept the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds retiretender one's resignation.

adjective

abdicant.

phrase

Othello's occupation's gone" [Othello].

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