All 3 Uses of
resolution
in
Washington Square
- A bad husband would have remarkable facilities for making her miserable; for she would have neither the intelligence nor the resolution to get the better of him, and yet she would have an exaggerated power of suffering.†
Chpt 14
- She was indeed a little awestruck, and the force of the girl's emotion and resolution left her nothing to reply.†
Chpt 25 *
- She looked at him at last, with a long silent gaze, which, in spite of her pride and her resolution, uttered part of the appeal she had tried not to make.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(resolution as in: a New Year's resolution) a firm decision to do something