resolve

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As you may imagine, this resolve is a sudden one, and I should be false to that perfect confidence which has always existed between us, if I did not frankly acquaint you with the circumstances which have led to my decision.

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  1. transitive verb To make a firm decision about.
  2. transitive verb To cause (a person) to reach a decision. See Synonyms at decide.
  3. transitive verb To decide or express by formal vote.
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  • That he could make such a resolve was a sign of returning health; but if, as I find, he had just been reading Carlyle's lately-published lectures on “Heroes,” though he did not then accept Carlyle's conclusions nor admire his style, might he not, in spite of his criticism, have been spurred the more into energy by that enthusiastic gospel of action? —  The Life of John Ruskin
  • And when his enemies tested American resolve, they soon discovered that his resolve was firm and unyielding. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • A question to ponder; Downtown Portland is in the 100-year flood plain, if it flooded there as frequently as Johnson creek does, how long would the City allow downtown to flood before a resolve was at hand. —  All Today's News - Sightline Daily
  • Evidence of this resolve is the Obama administration's recent announcement that it intends to seek a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council and greater involvement in the United Nations in general. —  NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories
  • But between him and the carrying out of this resolve was an iron bar and a padlock. —  Men of Affairs
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English resolven, to dissolve, from Old French resolver, from Latin resolvere, to untie : re-, re- + solvere, to untie; see leu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English resolren, from Old French resolver, vernacularly resoudre, French resoudre =Spanish Portuguese resolver =Italian risolvere, resolvere, from Latin resolvere, past participle resolutus, loosen, resolve, dissolve, melt, thaw, from re-, again, + solvere, loosen: see solve.
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