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Resolve   /rizˈɑlv/   Listen
Resolve

verb
(past & past part. resolved; pres. part. resolving)
1.
Bring to an end; settle conclusively.  Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, settle.  "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff" , "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
2.
Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation.  Synonym: conclude.
3.
Reach a decision.  Synonym: purpose.
4.
Understand the meaning of.  Synonym: answer.
5.
Make clearly visible.
6.
Find the solution.  Synonym: solve.  "Solve for x"
7.
Cause to go into a solution.  Synonyms: break up, dissolve.
noun
1.
The trait of being resolute.  Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution.  "It was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work"  Antonym: irresoluteness.
2.
A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote.  Synonyms: declaration, resolution.



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"Resolve" Quotes from Famous Books



... latent best in him. She developed in him a quickness of perception, a depth of thought and emotion, a facility of speech which he had never known. She stimulated every faculty, and gave him new incentive—a new and firmer resolve to aspire and fight for all that he ...
— One Day - A sequel to 'Three Weeks' • Anonymous

... when others of my Subjects undutifully misbehaved themselves to me, or so basely deserted me: And your seconding my Deputy, as you did, in His Firm and Resolute asserting my Right, in preserving this Kingdom for me, and putting it in a Posture of Defence; made me resolve to come to you, and to venture my life with you, in the defence of your Liberties and my Own Right. And to my great Satisfaction I have not only found you ready to serve me, but that your ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis

... confess, with shame, that I busied myself in a variety of ill-bred and preposterous conjectures about this matter of the supernumerary state-room. It was no business of mine, to be sure, but with none the less pertinacity did I occupy myself in attempts to resolve the enigma. At last I reached a conclusion which wrought in me great wonder why I had not arrived at it before. "It is a servant of course," I said; "what a fool I am, not sooner to have thought of so obvious a solution!" And then I again repaired to the list—but here I saw distinctly that no ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... space), 'The more ye ask us the more we won't stir.' One may smile at a young girl's miseries of this description; but they are very real and stinging miseries to her. All that Molly could do was to resolve on a single eye to the dear old squire, and his mental and bodily comforts; to try and heal up any breaches which might have occurred between him and Aimee; and to ignore Roger as much as possible. Good Roger! Kind Roger! Dear Roger! It would be very ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... for half an hour, and had brought a ray of sunshine into the teacher's monotonous life, heretofore lighted only by the uncertain lamp of high resolve. She had satisfied a pardonable curiosity, and had gone away without ...
— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt


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