All 6 Uses of
resolution
in
Crime and Punishment
- We may note in passing, one peculiarity in regard to all the final resolutions taken by him in the matter; they had one strange characteristic: the more final they were, the more hideous and the more absurd they at once became in his eyes.†
Chpt 1.6
- Her resolution had been taken.†
Chpt 3.3 *
- Yet he still thought highly of his own resolution in lifting Dounia to his level and regarded it as something heroic.†
Chpt 4.3
- I am sorry, too, that with all the energy and resolution in protesting—which she has already shown once—she has little self-reliance, little, so to say, independence, so as to break free from certain prejudices and certain foolish ideas.†
Chpt 5.1
- 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
- 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
Definition:
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(resolution as in: a New Year's resolution) a firm decision to do something