Forgo vs Resign - What's the difference?
forgo | resign |
To let pass, to leave alone
To do without, to abandon
To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.
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]:
As an adjective forgo
is turning, revolving, rotating, whirling, circulating.As a noun forgo
is joint.As a verb resign is
to give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of or resign can be (proscribed).forgo
English
Alternative forms
* foregoVerb
- The only way to avoid shame is to forgo acting shamefully.
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?