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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of a party in the Church of Scotland, in the seventeenth century, which approved the resolutions of the General Assembly admitting all except those of bad character, or hostile to the Covenant, to bear arms against Cromwell. See the quotation under Protester, 3.
  2. n. [lowercase] One who joins in or subscribes to a resolution.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution.
  2. n. A member of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 17th century.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century.

Etymologies

  1. resolution +‎ -er (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Remember, even if you were not a "resolutioner" when you first joined, at some point, you were new too.”

    Jodi R. R. Smith: Perfectly Polite While Working-out

  • “He had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by his Most Sacred Majesty, and was sequestrated as a malignant by the parliament 1642, and afterwards as a resolutioner in the year 1648.”

    Chapter II

  • “’—These two cross-grained epithets of malignant and resolutioner cost poor Sir Allan one half of the family estate.”

    Chapter II

  • “He had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by His Most Sacred Majesty, and was sequestrated as a malignant by the parliament, 1642, and afterwards as a resolutioner in the year 1648. ”

    Guy Mannering — Complete

  • “Most Sacred Majesty, and was sequestrated as a malignant by the parliament, 1642, and afterwards as a resolutioner in the year 1648. ”

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete

  • “These two cross-grained epithets of malignant and resolutioner cost poor Sir Allan one half of the family estate.”

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete

  • “He had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by His Most Sacred Majesty, and was sequestrated as a malignant by the parliament, 1642, and afterwards as a resolutioner in the year 1648.’”

    Guy Mannering

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