resolute
Etymology
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Etymology
From Latin resolutus ("released"), past participle of resolvō ("I release, I unbind").
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈɹɛ.zəˌl(j)uːt/, /ˌɹɛ.zəˈl(j)uːt/
resolute
- 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!
- (obsolete) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
- See also Thesaurus:obstinate
- French: résolu, résolue, ferme, déterminé, déterminée
- German: entschieden, entschlossen, resolut
- Portuguese: resoluto, resoluta
- Russian: непоколеби́мый
- Spanish: resoluto
resolute (plural resolutes)
- A determined person; one showing resolution.
- (maths) A projection onto an arbitrary vector.
- vector resolute
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