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resolve
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Jane Eyre
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The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather OUT of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.
p. 15.3

resolved = determined (firm in purpose)
"— unjust!" said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression — as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.
p. 19.1

resolve = firmness of purpose
Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues.
p. 56.1 *

resolved = settled or transformed
I resolved, in the depth of my heart, that I would be most moderate — most correct; and, having reflected a few minutes in order to arrange coherently what I had to say, I told her all the story of my sad childhood.
p. 84.6

resolved = decided
Thus relieved of a grievous load, I from that hour set to work afresh, resolved to pioneer my way through every difficulty: I toiled hard, and my success was proportionate to my efforts; my memory, not naturally tenacious, improved with practice; exercise sharpened my wits; in a few weeks I was promoted to a higher class; in less than two months I was allowed to commence French and drawing.
p. 88.4
It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who, after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest robes, and resolves to meet the false one that night at a ball, and prove to him, by the gaiety of her demeanour, how little his desertion has affected her.
p. 121.7

resolves = decides; or decisions
I have almost forgotten you since: other ideas have driven yours from my head; but to-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases.
p. 156.4

resolved = determined (firm in purpose)
"I'll do it," I resolved: and having framed this determination, I grew calm, and fell asleep.
p. 187.7

resolved = decided
"Whenever I marry," she continued after a pause which none interrupted, "I am resolved my husband shall not be a rival, but a foil to me."
p. 208.5

resolved = determined (have firmly decided)
It had heretofore been my habit always to shrink from arrogance: received as I had been to-day, I should, a year ago, have resolved to quit Gateshead the very next morning; now, it was disclosed to me all at once that that would be a foolish plan.
p. 265.1

resolved = decided
I knew by her stony eye — opaque to tenderness, indissoluble to tears — that she was resolved to consider me bad to the last; because to believe me good would give her no generous pleasure: only a sense of mortification.
p. 266.4

resolved = determined (firm in purpose)
I suppose I do come on; though in what fashion I know not; being scarcely cognisant of my movements, and solicitous only to appear calm; and, above all, to control the working muscles of my face — which I feel rebel insolently against my will, and struggle to express what I had resolved to conceal.
p. 282.4

resolved = decided
Is there not love in my heart, and constancy in my resolves?
p. 295.7

resolves = decisions
Just at sunset, the air turned cold and the sky cloudy: I went in, Sophie called me upstairs to look at my wedding-dress, which they had just brought; and under it in the box I found your present — the veil which, in your princely extravagance, you sent for from London: resolved, I suppose, since I would not have jewels, to cheat me into accepting something as costly.
p. 323.8

resolved = determined (firm in purpose)
He mused — for ten minutes he held counsel with himself: he formed his resolve, and announced it — "Enough! all shall bolt out at once, like the bullet from the barrel."
p. 336.4

resolve = decision
Well, Jane, being so, it was his resolution to keep the property together; he could not bear the idea of dividing his estate and leaving me a fair portion: all, he resolved, should go to my brother, Rowland.
p. 351.7
In the eyes of the world, I was doubtless covered with grimy dishonour; but I resolved to be clean in my own sight — and to the last I repudiated the contamination of her crimes, and wrenched myself from connection with her mental defects.
p. 354.4

resolved = decided
I wondered what you thought of me, or if you ever thought of me, and resolved to find this out.
p. 362.4
It was because I felt and knew this, that I resolved to marry you.
p. 363.3

resolved = decided

editor's notes: This follows an often-quoted passage:

"I have for the first time found what I can truly love -- I have found you. You are my sympathy -- my better self -- my good angel. I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one."
I laid my hand on the back of a chair for support: I shook, I feared — but I resolved.
p. 364.4

resolved = firmly decided
Anxious as ever to avoid discovery, I had before resolved to assume an ALIAS.
p. 387.6

resolved = decided
"He will sacrifice all to his long-framed resolves," she said: "natural affection and feelings more potent still."
p. 410.4

resolves = decisions
A missionary I resolved to be.
p. 417.2

resolved = decided
— I confess I had my suspicions, but it was only yesterday afternoon they were at once resolved into certainty.
p. 440.6
Besides, I am resolved I will have a home and connections.
p. 446.3

resolved = determined (firm in purpose)
My task was a very hard one; but, as I was absolutely resolved — as my cousins saw at length that my mind was really and immutably fixed on making a just division of the property ... they yielded at length so far as to consent to put the affair to arbitration.
p. 448.5 *
Indeed, as he leaned back against the crag behind him, folded his arms on his chest, and fixed his countenance, I saw he was prepared for a long and trying opposition, and had taken in a stock of patience to last him to its close — resolved, however, that that close should be conquest for him.
p. 464.5
...before I definitively resolve on quitting England, I will know for certain whether I cannot be of greater use by remaining in it than by leaving it.
p. 477.3 *

resolve = decide
In the prayer following the chapter, all his energy gathered — all his stern zeal woke: he was in deep earnest, wrestling with God, and resolved on a conquest.
p. 481.1

resolved = determined (firm in purpose)
I cannot give you up to perdition as a vessel of wrath: repent — resolve, while there is yet time.
p. 481.7

resolve = decide
I rose from the thanksgiving — took a resolve — and lay down, unscared, enlightened — eager but for the daylight.
p. 484.9

resolve = took a resolve is an archaic expression meaning firmly decided
There was the stile before me — the very fields through which I had hurried, blind, deaf, distracted with a revengeful fury tracking and scourging me, on the morning I fled from Thornfield: ere I well knew what course I had resolved to take, I was in the midst of them.
p. 488.3

resolved = decided
And the man seemed resolved to protract it.
p. 494.5

resolved = determined (firm in purpose)
I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever.†
p. 367.7

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(1) (resolve as in: I resolved to stop drinking.)
to decide -- typically a firm or formal decision

In modern writing resolve is typically used to emphasize a firm or formal decision. In classic literature, it is used more frequently and often simply replaces decide or determine.
(2) (resolve as in: This committee hereby resolves...)
make a decision or voice an opinion by formal group vote
(3) (resolve as in: Her resolve weakened.)
firmness of purpose (strong determination to do something)
(4) (resolve as in: How was the problem resolved?)
to solve a problem, settle a disagreement, or for a situation to change
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, resolve can mean:
- to make clearly visible -- as in "The microscope cannot resolve that level of detail."
- to divide into parts -- as in "The problem resolves into three parts,"or (math) "Resolve the polynomial into factors," or (chemistry) "As the temperature changes, the compound resolves into its component parts," or (physics) "The force on the inclined plane resolves into horizontal and vertical components."
- reduce or convert into something else -- as in "The URL is resolved to an IP address," or (music) "The progression is resolved as the dissonance is replaced by consonance."

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