unresigned
- a word derived from resigned.
Example Sentences
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It is written and read to provide human beings with lives they’re unresigned to not having.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2010
Sometimes bitter, sometimes buoyant, Jo is valiantly unresigned to the acrid facts of her life.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had not wished to sit there at all and he was so unresigned as to be badly in need of the soothing influences of Morning Prayer.
From Robinetta by McAulay, Allan
All now with low-bent head, Like swine, on acorns fed; Man's speech and form were reft, No human feature left; But steadfast still, the mind, Unaltered, unresigned, The monstrous change bewailed.
From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)
“I’m a widder,” she said to big Tom, in a tone not unresigned.
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
