Usage examples for resignation:

• The patient received it kindly and sought to drink it with resignation "The Physiology of Taste" – Brillat Savarin

• And now that I am probably to be with her all the while that her son is away, I look forward to more with a resignation that I don't quite know what to make of." "Roderick Hudson" – Henry James

• In the spring Jean had an illness which made it necessary for her to spend several months on the sofa- a decree which she accepted with extraordinary resignation "A Question of Marriage" – Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

• During that time, I was enabled to suffer with much resignation and patience. "The Autobiography of Madame Guyon" – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon