单词 | resignationism |
释义 | resignationismn. Frequently depreciative. A tendency to accept circumstances with (esp. unwarranted) resignation; (belief in) a philosophy of resignation. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1898 |
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