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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of resolve.

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resolve + -eth

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Examples

  • He who resolveth not to be holy had best seek another god to worship and serve; with our God he will never find acceptance.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • For if he who resolveth bravely oftentimes falleth short, how shall it be with him who resolveth rarely or feebly?

    XIX. Book I: Admonitions Profitable for the Spiritual Life. Of the Exercises of a Religious Man 1909

  • Wherefore he resolveth to change his customs, and whiles he feareth to lose his prosperity, he forsaketh wickedness.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • If it be put in water before the sunbeams, it maketh the water seethe in the vessel that it is in, and resolveth it as it were into mist, and soon after it is resolved into rain-drops.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • The best myrrhe is known by little peeces which are not round; and when they grow together, they yeeld a certain whitish liquour which issueth and resolveth from them, and if a man breake them into morsels, it hath white veines resembling men's nails, and in tast is somewhat bitter.

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

  • God, who seeth all, is witness, how faithfully I do vow to dedicate the rest of my life, next after my highest duty, in obedience faith and zeal to your majesty, without admitting any other worldly care; and whatsoever your majesty resolveth to do with me, I shall live and die

    Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

  • So, that he thus unfeignedly willeth the conversion of those that will never be converted; but not as absolute Lord, with the fullest efficacious resollution, nor as a thing which he resolveth shall undoubtedly come to pass, or would engage all his power to accomplish.

    A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live 1615-1691 1795

  • But yet he resolveth, as lawgiver, that they that will not turn shall die: And, as judge, when their day of grace is past, he will execute that decree.

    A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live 1615-1691 1795

  • It were good we knew our own misery: the man resolveth a prisoner has a sweet life, who loveth his own chains, because made of gold, and hateth them not because chains; and falleth to paint the walls of his dungeon, and to put up hangings in his prison, and will but over-gild with gold his iron fetters.

    The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. 1600-1661 1645

  • And elsewhere (549) he resolveth, that things which are by themselves both good and necessary, may not for any abuse be put away.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

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