Forego vs Resign - What's the difference?
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To precede, to go before.
* Wordsworth
; to abandon, to relinquish
* 1762 Waller, T. The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon'', in ''The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762 , Vol. I (February), page 34:
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]:
Forego is a related term of resign.
As verbs the difference between forego and resign
is that forego is to precede, to go before or forego can be ; to abandon, to relinquish while resign is to give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of or resign can be (proscribed).forego
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Verb
- pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone
Usage notes
* The sense to precede'' is usually found in the form of the participles ''foregone'' (especially in the phrase "a foregone conclusion") and ''foregoing (usually used either attributively, as in "the foregoing discussion", or substantively, as in "subject to the foregoing").Etymology 2
See forgoVerb
- […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.
Usage notes
* Many writers prefer the spelling forgo on the grounds that it avoids ambiguity.References
* *Anagrams
* English irregular verbsresign
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?