resign

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman resigner, Middle French resigner, and its source, Latin resignāre (“to unseal, annul, assign, resign”), from re- + signāre (“to seal, stamp”).

verb

1. (transitive) To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
2. (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
3. (transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position).
   I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.
   He resigned the crown to follow his heart.
   To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home. Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office. August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon, 2:30 from the start, in Richard Nixon's resignation speech, CBSN
4. (transitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
   He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion.
   Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what resigned him to his fate? 1996, Robin Buss, The Count of Monte Cristo, translation of, Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 2003 Penguin edition, page 394 http://books.google.com/books?id=QAa5l_8DNbcC&pg=PA394&dq=fate

Etymology 2

re- + sign

verb

1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign
   Lastly, a note that I have resigned my GPG key to extend the expiration date. 2020, Kevin McCarthy, mutt 2.0.0 released, mutt-announce mailing list, November 7 2020