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oxxrs commented on Auto-Antonyms   fun-with-words.com/nym_au... · Posted by u/rsj_hn
smudgymcscmudge · 6 years ago
Resign doesn’t really belong on this list. It isn’t an antonym of itself. Resign and resign are homographs with opposite(ish) meanings.
oxxrs · 6 years ago
It's a heteronym, see[1]. And etymologically they seem to be related, the sense "quit" dating back to the 14th century while the sense "sign again" a more recent addition, 19th century [2]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heteronym

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resign

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