All 11 Uses of
resolution
in
Jane Eyre
- At Lowood, indeed, I took that resolution, kept it, and succeeded in pleasing; but with Mrs. Reed, I remember my best was always spurned with scorn.†
Chpt 11
- It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve; and that if from this day you began with resolution to correct your thoughts and actions, you would in a few years have laid up a new and stainless store of recollections, to which you might revert with pleasure.†
Chpt 14
- I will endure only sense and resolution.†
Chpt 16
- She told me one evening, when more disposed to be communicative than usual, that John's conduct, and the threatened ruin of the family, had been a source of profound affliction to her: but she had now, she said, settled her mind, and formed her resolution.†
Chpt 21
- I neither expressed surprise at this resolution nor attempted to dissuade her from it.†
Chpt 22
- I wrestled with my own resolution: I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.†
Chpt 27
- 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
- I then framed and fixed a resolution.†
Chpt 27
- This was cowardly: I should have appealed to your nobleness and magnanimity at first, as I do now — opened to you plainly my life of agony — described to you my hunger and thirst after a higher and worthier existence — shown to you, not my RESOLUTION (that word is weak), but my resistless BENT to love faithfully and well, where I am faithfully and well loved in return.†
Chpt 27
- You adhere to that resolution?†
Chpt 35
- I adhere to my resolution.†
Chpt 35 *
Definition:
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(resolution as in: a New Year's resolution) a firm decision to do something