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resolute
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  • I cry out, more frustrated than pained, and hit the crow with both hands, but it stays in place, resolute, one eye on me, feathers gleaming in the yellow light.  (source)
    resolute = firm in purpose
  • She was white to the lips, but she looked resolute.  (source)
    resolute = determined (with firm purpose)
  • The resolute administrator in him gave way to the student of primitive customs.  (source)
    resolute = firm in purpose
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  • He has directly challenged the authority of the government, and future discipline depends upon a resolute reply to this challenge.  (source)
    resolute = firm
  • The bony hand in hers was trembling as they walked down the grassy path, but Prudence stepped resolutely beside her.  (source)
    resolutely = firm in purpose
  • And beneath such unspoken words, while with her weak eyes she bent deeply to her mending, her generous and unreflective spirit was more deeply grieved than she could find thought for, and more resolute than any thought for resoluteness could have made it.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • At times, she became resolute in wanting to be exactly the opposite of her mother.  (source)
    resolute = firm (in purpose or belief)
  • She didn't like the way her thoughts were speeding up, and she pushed the whole mess resolutely away before it could grow to avalanche size and bury her in another deep depression.  (source)
    resolutely = with firm purpose
  • You feel in the atmosphere the same tonic, puissant quality that is in the tilth, the same strength and resoluteness.†  (source)
  • Less reckless and eager than Boromir, but not less resolute.  (source)
    resolute = firm in purpose
  • Resolutely he pressed on.  (source)
    Resolutely = with firm purpose or belief
  • He was able to get through the other crises of dressing with comparative resoluteness and calm.†  (source)
  • He was never so resolute, never so strong, never so full of volcanic energy, as at present.  (source)
    resolute = determined
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