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Definition of Resignedly
1. Adverb. With resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner. "Resignedly, I telegraphed back that it was all right with me if he insisted"
2. Adverb. In a hopeless resigned manner. "She shrugged her shoulders abjectly"
Definition of Resignedly
1. adv. With submission.
Definition of Resignedly
1. Adverb. With resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner ¹
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Definition of Resignedly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resignedly
Literary usage of Resignedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Silvia by Julia Kavanagh (1870)
"Their elders submit, if not with a good grace, at least resignedly, for they have
got used to pay that sad reckoning at many an inn. ..."
2. Memoir of Hannah Taylor: extracted from her own memorandums by Hannah Harris Taylor (1820)
"... Britain's shore;— Though I mourn my expected detention from you; I rejoice in
that Mercy that lives evermore ;— , I rejoice—and resignedly bid you adieu ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"Around, by lifting winds forgot, resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters
lie. No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that ..."
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