| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers | | Division (II) Intersocial Volition | | Section I. General Intersocial Volition |
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| 757. Resignation. |
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| NOUN: | RESIGNATION, retirement, abdication; renunciation, retractation, retraction, renunciance [rare], disclamation, disclaimer, abjuration; abandonment, relinquishment.
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| VERB: | RESIGN; give up, throw up; lay down, throw up the cards, wash one’s hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract; deny [See Negation].
ABROGATE [See Abrogation]; desert (relinquish) [See Relinquishment]; get rid of [See Relinquishment].
VACATE, - one’s seat; abdicate; accept the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds [Eng.]; retire; tender -, pass in -, hand in- one’s resignation.
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| ADJECTIVE: | ABDICANT; resigning &c. v.; renunciatory, renunciant [rare], abjuratory, disclamatory [rare], retractive.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Othello’s occupation’s gone.—Othello
- Few die and none resign.—Jefferson
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