Resign vs Embrace - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between resign and embrace

is that resign is to give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of or resign can be (proscribed) while embrace is to clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

As a noun embrace is

hug (noun); putting arms around someone.

resign

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) reisgner, (etyl) resigner, and its source, (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of.

* , I.39:

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.

(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.

(transitive, or, intransitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.

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.

* 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]:

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?

Synonyms

* quit

Derived terms

* resignation * resign oneself

Etymology 2

(re-) + (sign)

Verb

(en verb)
(proscribed)

Usage notes

The spelling without the hyphen results in a heteronym and is usually avoided.

Anagrams

* reigns * signer * singer English contranyms English heteronyms

embrace
English

Alternative forms
* imbrace (obsolete)
Verb
(embrac)
To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

* Shakespeare

I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, / That he shall shrink under my courtesy.

* Bible, Acts xx. 1

Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them.

(obsolete) To cling to; to cherish; to love.

(Shakespeare)

To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.

I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.

* Shakespeare

You embrace the occasion.

* John Locke

What is there that he may not embrace for truth?

To accept; to undergo; to submit to.

* Shakespeare

I embrace this fortune patiently.

To encircle; to encompass; to enclose.

* Dryden

Not that my song, in such a scanty space, / So large a subject fully can embrace .

* Denham

Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, / Between the mountain and the stream embraced .

To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.

Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.

To fasten on, as armour.

(Spenser)

(legal) To attempt to influence (a jury, court, etc.) corruptly.

(Blackstone)

Noun
(en noun)
Hug (noun); putting arms around someone.

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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.

(metaphorical) Enfolding, including.