All 5 Uses of
resolute
in
The Age of Innocence
- Archer entirely approved of family solidarity, and one of the qualities he most admired in the Mingotts was their resolute championship of the few black sheep that their blameless stock had produced.†
Chpt 2
- Nothing about his betrothed pleased him more than her resolute determination to carry to its utmost limit that ritual of ignoring the "unpleasant" in which they had both been brought up.†
Chpt 3 *
- Under her hat-brim he saw the pallor of her profile, and a slight tremor of the nostril above her resolutely steadied lips.†
Chpt 16
- He stood up too, flushed and resolute.†
Chpt 18
- All these amiable and inexorable persons were resolutely engaged in pretending to each other that they had never heard of, suspected, or even conceived possible, the least hint to the contrary; and from this tissue of elaborate mutual dissimulation Archer once more disengaged the fact that New York believed him to be Madame Olenska's lover.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(resolute) firm in purpose or belief