All 34 Uses of
resolve
in
Jane Eyre
- The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather OUT of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
- "— unjust!" said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression — as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)resolve = firmness of purpose
- Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues.
Chpt 5 (definition 2) *resolved = settled or solved
- I resolved, in the depth of my heart, that I would be most moderate — most correct; and, having reflected a few minutes in order to arrange coherently what I had to say, I told her all the story of my sad childhood.
Chpt 8 (definition 3)resolved = decided
- Thus relieved of a grievous load, I from that hour set to work afresh, resolved to pioneer my way through every difficulty: I toiled hard, and my success was proportionate to my efforts; my memory, not naturally tenacious, improved with practice; exercise sharpened my wits; in a few weeks I was promoted to a higher class; in less than two months I was allowed to commence French and drawing.
Chpt 8 (definition 3)
- It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who, after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest robes, and resolves to meet the false one that night at a ball, and prove to him, by the gaiety of her demeanour, how little his desertion has affected her.
Chpt 11 (definition 3)resolves = decides; or decisions
- I have almost forgotten you since: other ideas have driven yours from my head; but to-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases.
Chpt 14 (definition 1)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
- "I'll do it," I resolved: and having framed this determination, I grew calm, and fell asleep.
Chpt 16 (definition 3)resolved = decided
- "Whenever I marry," she continued after a pause which none interrupted, "I am resolved my husband shall not be a rival, but a foil to me."
Chpt 17 (definition 1)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
- It had heretofore been my habit always to shrink from arrogance: received as I had been to-day, I should, a year ago, have resolved to quit Gateshead the very next morning; now, it was disclosed to me all at once that that would be a foolish plan.
Chpt 21 (definition 3)resolved = decided
- I knew by her stony eye — opaque to tenderness, indissoluble to tears — that she was resolved to consider me bad to the last; because to believe me good would give her no generous pleasure: only a sense of mortification.
Chpt 21 (definition 1)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
- I suppose I do come on; though in what fashion I know not; being scarcely cognisant of my movements, and solicitous only to appear calm; and, above all, to control the working muscles of my face — which I feel rebel insolently against my will, and struggle to express what I had resolved to conceal.
Chpt 22 (definition 3)resolved = decided
- Is there not love in my heart, and constancy in my resolves?
Chpt 23 (definition 3)resolves = decides; or decisions
- Just at sunset, the air turned cold and the sky cloudy: I went in, Sophie called me upstairs to look at my wedding-dress, which they had just brought; and under it in the box I found your present — the veil which, in your princely extravagance, you sent for from London: resolved, I suppose, since I would not have jewels, to cheat me into accepting something as costly.
Chpt 25 (definition 1)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
- He mused — for ten minutes he held counsel with himself: he formed his resolve, and announced it — "Enough! all shall bolt out at once, like the bullet from the barrel."
Chpt 26 (definition 3)resolve = decide; or decision
- Well, Jane, being so, it was his resolution to keep the property together; he could not bear the idea of dividing his estate and leaving me a fair portion: all, he resolved, should go to my brother, Rowland.
Chpt 27 (definition 3)resolved = decided
- In the eyes of the world, I was doubtless covered with grimy dishonour; but I resolved to be clean in my own sight — and to the last I repudiated the contamination of her crimes, and wrenched myself from connection with her mental defects.
Chpt 27 (definition 3)
- I wondered what you thought of me, or if you ever thought of me, and resolved to find this out.
Chpt 27 (definition 3)
- It was because I felt and knew this, that I resolved to marry you.
Chpt 27 (definition 3)
- I laid my hand on the back of a chair for support: I shook, I feared — but I resolved.
Chpt 27 (definition 3)
- I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever.†
Chpt 27 (definition 3)
- Anxious as ever to avoid discovery, I had before resolved to assume an ALIAS.
Chpt 28 (definition 3)resolved = decided
- "He will sacrifice all to his long-framed resolves," she said: "natural affection and feelings more potent still."
Chpt 30 (definition 3)resolves = decides; or decisions
- A missionary I resolved to be.
Chpt 31 (definition 3)resolved = decided
- — I confess I had my suspicions, but it was only yesterday afternoon they were at once resolved into certainty.†
Chpt 33 (definition 3)
- Besides, I am resolved I will have a home and connections.
Chpt 33 (definition 1)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
- My task was a very hard one; but, as I was absolutely resolved — as my cousins saw at length that my mind was really and immutably fixed on making a just division of the property ... they yielded at length so far as to consent to put the affair to arbitration.
Chpt 33 (definition 1) *resolved = determined (having firm purpose)
- Indeed, as he leaned back against the crag behind him, folded his arms on his chest, and fixed his countenance, I saw he was prepared for a long and trying opposition, and had taken in a stock of patience to last him to its close — resolved, however, that that close should be conquest for him.
Chpt 34 (definition 1)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
- ...before I definitively resolve on quitting England, I will know for certain whether I cannot be of greater use by remaining in it than by leaving it.
Chpt 35 (definition 3) *resolve = decide
- In the prayer following the chapter, all his energy gathered — all his stern zeal woke: he was in deep earnest, wrestling with God, and resolved on a conquest.
Chpt 35 (definition 1)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
- I cannot give you up to perdition as a vessel of wrath: repent — resolve, while there is yet time.
Chpt 35 (definition 3)resolve = decide; or decision
- I rose from the thanksgiving — took a resolve — and lay down, unscared, enlightened — eager but for the daylight.†
Chpt 35 (definition 3)
- There was the stile before me — the very fields through which I had hurried, blind, deaf, distracted with a revengeful fury tracking and scourging me, on the morning I fled from Thornfield: ere I well knew what course I had resolved to take, I was in the midst of them.
Chpt 36 (definition 3)resolved = decided
- And the man seemed resolved to protract it.
Chpt 36 (definition 1)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
Definitions:
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(1) (resolve as in: Her resolve weakened.) firmness of purpose (strong determination to do something)
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(2) (resolve as in: How was the problem resolved?) to solve a problem, settle a disagreement, or for a situation to change
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(3) (resolve as in: I resolved to stop drinking.) to decide -- typically a firm or formal decisioneditor's notes: In modern writing resolve is typically used to emphasize a firm or formal decision. In classic literature, it is used more frequently and often simply replaces decide or determine.