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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : ri-zolv
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈzɒlv

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Définition of resolve

Origin :
  • late 14c., "melt, dissolve, reduce to liquid;" intransitive sense from c.1400; from Old French resolver or directly from Latin resolvere "to loosen, loose, unyoke, undo; explain; relax; set free; make void, dispel," from re-, perhaps intensive, or "back" (see re-), + solvere "loosen" (see solve). Early 15c. as "separate into components," hence the use in optics (1785). Meaning "determine, decide upon" is from 1520s, hence "pass a resolution" (1580s). For sense evolution, cf. resolute (adj.). Related: Resolved; resolving.
  • noun decision, determination
  • verb make up one's mind; find solution
Example sentences :
  • It is a test of our courage—of our resolve—of our wisdom—our essential democracy.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • To that end we will devote our strength, our resources, and our firmness of resolve.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • Come not near us, if you have resolve to be undutiful: but this, after what I have written, I hope you cannot be.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • Some have unwisely chosen to test America's resolve, and have found it firm.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • Yet, her spirit triumphed, and again she persevered in that resolve to live straight.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • Could she, thus doomed, resolve on declining her brother's offer?
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • But Dick remembered his mission, and his resolve to perform it was not shaken a particle.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • Thus and thus, ringing the changes on resolve and explanation, her thoughts ran.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • Inwardly I resolve afresh that I never will forgive that hated town.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens

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