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Word Meanings - RESOLVEDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution. Dr. H. More.

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  • 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.

 

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