resignation (n.)
- abandonment
- abdication
- abeyance
- abjuration
- acceptance
- acclimation
- acclimatization
- acedia
- acquiescence
- adaptation
- adjustment
- aloofness
- amenability
- apathy
- assent
- ataraxia
- blah
- blahs
- capitulation
- cessation
- cession
- comatoseness
- comfort
- complaisance
- compliance
- composure
- conformity
- consent
- content
- contentedness
- contentment
- deference
- detachment
- discontinuance
- disinterest
- dispassion
- dispensation
- disposal
- disposition
- dullness
- dumping
- ease
- euphoria
- forbearance
- forgoing
- forswearing
- fulfillment
- happiness
- heartlessness
- hebetude
- homage
- hopelessness
- humbleness
- humility
- indifference
- insouciance
- kneeling
- lethargy
- listlessness
- long-suffering
- longanimity
- lowliness
- meekness
- modesty
- nonchalance
- nonresistance
- notice
- numbness
- obedience
- obeisance
- passiveness
- passivity
- phlegm
- quietism
- recantation
- reconciliation
- release
- relinquishment
- renouncement
- renunciation
- retraction
- riddance
- sacrifice
- satisfaction
- sloth
- sluggishness
- sopor
- spiritlessness
- stupefaction
- stupor
- subjection
- submission
- submissiveness
- surrender
- suspension
- torpidity
- torpidness
- torpor
- unconcern
- waiver
- well-being
- withdrawnness
- yielding
While Resignation gently slopes away,
And all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past.
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
