All 12 Uses of
resolve
in
Crime and Punishment
- He had also a pocket pruning-knife, but he could not rely on the knife and still less on his own strength, and so resolved finally on the axe.†
Chpt 1.6
- When you decamped in that rascally way without leaving your address, I felt so angry that I resolved to find you out and punish you.†
Chpt 2.3
- Pyotr Petrovitch deliberately drew out a cambric handkerchief reeking of scent and blew his nose with an air of a benevolent man who felt himself slighted, and was firmly resolved to insist on an explanation.†
Chpt 4.2
- Last year I had no need of it, but this year I resolved to borrow it as soon as he arrived.†
Chpt 4.3
- I'm absolutely resolved on it.†
Chpt 4.3 *
- So I resolved to gain possession of the old woman's money and to use it for my first years without worrying my mother, to keep myself at the university and for a little while after leaving it—and to do this all on a broad, thorough scale, so as to build up a completely new career and enter upon a new life of independence….†
Chpt 5.4
- Here we see resolution in the first stage, but resolution of a special kind: he resolved to do it like jumping over a precipice or from a bell tower and his legs shook as he went to the crime.†
Chpt 6.2
- I saw the danger at the first glance and what do you think, I resolved not to look at her even.†
Chpt 6.4
- , that she lived by her work, that she had her mother and you to keep (ach, hang it, you are frowning again), and I resolved to offer her all my money—thirty thousand roubles I could have realised then—if she would run away with me here, to Petersburg.†
Chpt 6.4
- Raskolnikov saw clearly that the glass or glass and a half of champagne that he had sipped almost unconsciously was affecting him—and he resolved to take advantage of the opportunity.†
Chpt 6.4
- He became very suspicious of Svidrigailov and resolved to follow him.†
Chpt 6.4
- Razumihin, in his youthful ardour, had firmly resolved to lay the foundations at least of a secure livelihood during the next three or four years, and saving up a certain sum, to emigrate to Siberia, a country rich in every natural resource and in need of workers, active men and capital.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(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.