All 10 Uses of

resolution

in

Frankenstein - 1831 version

My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.
p. 17.6 *

resolution = firmness of purpose

Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can conceive a consolation for my toils which I may never know, that I am wavering in my resolutions.
p. 21.6

resolutions = determination (firmness of purpose)

There only remained a resolution to return to my ancient studies and to devote myself to a science for which I believed myself to possess a natural talent.
p. 49.8

I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution.
p. 104.7

With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours.
p. 168.3

resolution = decision

I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words.
p. 173.3

resolution = determination (firmness of purpose)

My manner as I thus addressed him was impressive but calm; I had formed in my own heart a resolution to pursue my destroyer to death, and this purpose quieted my agony and for an interval reconciled me to life.
p. 202.9

My first resolution was to quit Geneva forever; my country, which, when I was happy and beloved, was dear to me, now, in my adversity, became hateful.
p. 205.2 *

resolution = decision

Even the sailors feel the power of his eloquence; when he speaks, they no longer despair; he rouses their energies, and while they hear his voice they believe these vast mountains of ice are mole-hills which will vanish before the resolutions of man.
p. 216.4

resolutions = determination (firmness of purpose)

At length I gathered resolution to address him in a pause of the tempest of his passion.
p. 222.0

Definitions:

(1) (resolution as in: a New Year's resolution)
a firm decision to do something
(2) (resolution as in: a United Nations resolution)
a formal statement of decision or opinion voted on by a group

While a resolution typically expresses an opinion and has no legal force, when used in early U.S. history or in the expressions joint resolution of Congress or continuing resolution, it becomes a synonym for legislation (meaning that it carries the force of law).
(3) (resolution as in: Her resolution weakened.)
determination (firmness of purpose)
(4) (resolution as in: resolution of the dispute)
a solution or outcome
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much less commonly, other meanings of resolution include:
- a measure of optic detail -- as in: "The photograph has excellent resolution."
- separation into different parts -- as in: "When force is applied to an inclined plane there is resolution of the force into horizontal and vertical components."
- conversion to something else -- as in: "... resolution of the chord from dissonance (an unstable sound) to consonance (a more stable sound)."
- reduction to or conversion to something else -- as in: "It permits resolution of a URL to an IP address."