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单词 resignationism
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resignationismn.

Brit. /ˌrɛzᵻɡˈneɪʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌrɛzᵻɡˈneɪʃənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌrɛzəɡˈneɪʃəˌnɪz(ə)m/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: resignation n., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < resignation n. + -ism suffix, originally after German Resignationismus (1885 in a letter by Nietzsche).Quot. 1898 refers to Nietzsche's use of the German word in the preface to his Geburt der Tragödie (1886): Oh wie ferne war mir damals gerade dieser ganze Resignationismus! ‘O how far from me then was precisely this whole doctrine of resignation!’
Frequently depreciative.
A tendency to accept circumstances with (esp. unwarranted) resignation; (belief in) a philosophy of resignation.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > [noun] > acceptance of circumstances
resignation?1504
contentation1567
resignedness1635
content1646
resignment1659
reconcilement1726
coming to terms1843
resignationism1898
1898 Contemp. Rev. May 736 Nietzsche..distinguishes between the ‘romantic pessimism’..and the ‘Dionysiac pessimism’... He brands the former as Resignationism.
1919 H. L. Mencken in Smart Set June 139/1 Christianity originated among a people forced into an unhealthy resignationism by long-continued helplessness.
1943 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Lucky Poet v. 223 I was very soon to recognize in myself a spirit to which such backward-looking resignationism and sentimental dreaming were utterly false and foreign.
2001 M. C. Nussbaum Fragility of Goodness (rev. ed.) p. xxxvii For that audience, tragedy did not bring the good news of resignationism; it brought the bad news of self-examination and change.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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