Disown vs Resign - What's the difference?
disown | resign | Related terms |
To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
To give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of.
* , I.39:
(transitive, or, intransitive) To quit (a job or position).
(transitive, or, intransitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
* 1996 , Robin Buss, The Count of Monte Cristo'', translation of, edition, ISBN 0140449264, page 394 [http://books.google.com/books?id=QAa5l_8DNbcC&pg=PA394&dq=fate]:
Disown is a related term of resign.
As verbs the difference between disown and resign
is that disown is to refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own while resign is to give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of or resign can be (proscribed).disown
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Verb
(en verb)- Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to ''disown'' their daughter Juliet if she didn't go through with marrying Count Paris.
Usage notes
Particularly used of parents regarding their children, and stronger than the similar estrange, which can also be used of children regarding their parents, or of siblings.Synonyms
* disavow * disclaimresign
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) reisgner, (etyl) resigner, and its source, (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- And if the perfection of well-speaking might bring any glorie sutable unto a great personage, Scipio'' and ''Lelius would never have resigned the honour of their Comedies.
- I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.
- He resigned the crown to follow his heart.
- After fighting for so long, she finally resigned to her death.
- 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?
