resolute
Etymology

From Latin resolutus ("released"), past participle of resolvō ("I release, I unbind").

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈɹɛ.zəˌl(j)uːt/, /ˌɹɛ.zəˈl(j)uːt/
Adjective

resolute

  1. Firm, unyielding, determined.
    She was resolute in her determination to resist his romantic advances.
    He was resolute in his decision to stay.
    • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene iv]:
      Edward is at hand, / Ready to fight; therefore be resolute.
    • a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “I'm the little “Heart's Ease”!”, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, editors, Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, published 1929, page 69 ↗:
      If the Coward Bumble Bee / In his chimney corner stay, / I, must resoluter be!
  2. (obsolete) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
Synonyms Antonyms Translations Noun

resolute (plural resolutes)

  1. A determined person; one showing resolution.
  2. (maths) A projection onto an arbitrary vector.
    vector resolute



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