Word Meanings - RESOLVEDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution. Dr. H. More.
Related words: (words related to RESOLVEDNESS)
- PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - RESOLUTIONER
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. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - RESOLUTIONIST
One who makes a resolution. - PURPOSER
1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends. - RESOLUTION
The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem. (more info) 1. The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. The act of - PURPOSELY
With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they - FIXEDNESS
1. The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness. 2. The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold. - PURPOSEFUL
Important; material. "Purposeful accounts." Tylor. -- Pur"pose*ful*ly, adv. - PURPOSEDLY
In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely. A poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war. Holland. - FIRMNESS
The state or quality of being firm. Syn. -- Firmness, Constancy. Firmness belongs to the will, and constancy to the affections and principles; the former prevents us from yielding, and the latter from fluctuating. Without firmness a man - CROSS-PURPOSE
A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info) - DISPURPOSE
To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer. - INFIRMNESS
Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle. - IRRESOLUTION
Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in - UNFIRMNESS
Infirmness.