Word Meanings - RESIGNEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One to whom anything is resigned, or in whose favor a resignation is made.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• RESIGNED
  Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur. A firm, yet cautious mind; Sincere, thought prudent; constant, yet resigned. Pope.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• RESIGNER
  One who resigns.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• RESIGNEDLY
  With submission.
• FAVOREDNESS
  Appearance.
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• FAVORED
  1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend. 2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
• FAVORER
  One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.
• FAVORITISM
  The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• RESIGN
  assign, resign; pref. re- re- + signare to seal, stamp. See Sign, and 1. To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the
• FAVOREDLY
  In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably. Deut. xvii. 1. Arscham.
• RESIGNEE
  One to whom anything is resigned, or in whose favor a resignation is made.
• RESIGNMENT
  The act of resigning.
• FAVORLESS
  1. Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support. 2. Unpropitious; unfavorable. "Fortune favorless." Spenser.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• UNFAVORABLE
  Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.
• DISFAVORABLY
  Unpropitiously.
• EVIL-FAVORED
  Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed. Bacon. -- E"vil-fa`vored*ness, n. Deut. xvi. 1.
• FORESIGNIFY
  To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.
• HARD-FAVORED
  Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. Dryden.