All 34 Uses of
resolve
in
Little Dorrit
- If she had had any doubt which was her own Jeremiah, it would have been resolved by his impatience.
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1) *resolved = settled or solved
- But Mrs Clennam, resolved to treat herself with the greater rigour for having been supposed to be unacquainted with reparation, refused to eat her oysters when they were brought.
Chpt 1.5 (definition 2)resolved = decided
- At last he resolved to watch Little Dorrit and know more of her story.
Chpt 1.5 (definition 2)
- After making the voyage to that port from London, he found himself so strongly impelled to cut the vessel, that he resolved to walk back again.
Chpt 1.7 (definition 2)
- Having got to this pass, he resolved as an exercise in perseverance, to betake himself again to the Circumlocution Office, and try what satisfaction he could get there.
Chpt 1.10 (definition 2)
- The guest sat looking at her as he smoked out his final cigarette, and as she sat with her head bent over her work, with an expression that might have resolved her doubts, and brought her to a lasting conclusion on the subject of his good or bad looks if she had seen it.
Chpt 1.11 (definition 1)resolved = settled or solved
- John Baptist, staring at him with eyes opened to their utmost width, made a number of those national, backhanded shakes of the right forefinger in the air, as if he were resolved on negativing beforehand everything that the other could possibly advance during the whole term of his life.
Chpt 1.11 (definition 3)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
- Clennam went back to his room, sat down again before his fire, and made up his mind that he was glad he had resolved not to fall in love with Pet.
Chpt 1.16 (definition 2)resolved = decided
- After a little consideration, he resolved to supply Mr Pancks with such leading information as it was in his power to impart him; well knowing that Mr Pancks, if he failed in his present research, was pretty sure to find other means of getting it.
Chpt 1.23 (definition 2)
- So she resolved to watch the tiny woman, and see what came of it.
Chpt 1.24 (definition 2)
- And I resolve, for my part, not to depreciate him.'†
Chpt 1.26 (definition 2)
- The current of these meditations would have been stayed sometimes by a rush of shame, bearing a remonstrance to himself from his own open nature, representing that to shelter such suspicions, even for the passing moment, was not to hold the high, unenvious course he had resolved to keep.
Chpt 1.26 (definition 2)resolved = decided
- He still hoped to resume that domestic position when Fortune should smile upon his son-in-law; in the meantime, while she preserved an immovable countenance, he was, and resolved to remain, one of these little old men in a grove of little old men with a community of flavour.
Chpt 1.31 (definition 2)
- The way in which you are resolved and determined to disgrace us on all occasions, is really infamous.
Chpt 1.31 (definition 3) *resolved = determined (with firmness of purpose)
- Mrs Merdle's Complaint Resigning herself to inevitable fate by making the best of those people, the Miggleses, and submitting her philosophy to the draught upon it, of which she had foreseen the likelihood in her interview with Arthur, Mrs Gowan handsomely resolved not to oppose her son's marriage.†
Chpt 1.33 (definition 2)
- It would have been so cruel if he had meant it, that Clennam firmly resolved to believe he did not mean it.†
Chpt 1.34 (definition 2)
- Clennam, of course, resolved to go direct to Mr Casby's.†
Chpt 1.35 (definition 2)
- When her charge was at length formed, the marriage, not only of the young lady, but likewise of her father, the widower, was resolved on.†
Chpt 2.2 (definition 2)
- Upon it, Gowan resolved to encourage him.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 2)
- 'The great dog, regardless of being half-choked by his collar, was obdurately pulling with his dead weight against his master, resolved to get across the room.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 2)
- …in small pieces by the shirt-collar, that Mrs Merdle having completely used up her place in the country, and also her house at Brighton, and being, of course, unable, don't you see, to remain in London when there wasn't a soul there, and not feeling herself this year quite up to visiting about at people's places, had resolved to have a touch at Rome, where a woman like herself, with a proverbially fine appearance, and with no nonsense about her, couldn't fail to be a great acquisition.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 2)
- However, he was resolved to stick to the Great Department; and so the work of form-filling, corresponding, minuting, memorandum-making, signing, counter-signing, counter-counter-signing, referring backwards and forwards, and referring sideways, crosswise, and zig-zag, recommenced.†
Chpt 2.8 (definition 2)
- Still bending his head and listening to the girl, he went on at her side, and Clennam followed them, resolved to play this unexpected play out, and see where they went.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 2)
- But what I particularly want you to know, and why I have resolved to tell you so much while I am afraid it may make you a little uncomfortable without occasion, is this.†
Chpt 2.11 (definition 2)
- He therefore resolved that he would take advantage of that evening's freedom to go down to Clennam and Co.'s, easily to be found by the direction set forth in the handbill; and see the place, and ask a question or two there himself.†
Chpt 2.17 (definition 2)
- I resolved that they should not know.
Chpt 2.21 (definition 2) *resolved = definitely decided
- Confident in the rectitude of his purpose, and impelled by a sense of overhanging danger closing in around, he resolved, if his mother would still admit of no approach, to make a desperate appeal to Affery.†
Chpt 2.23 (definition 2)
- 'Mr Rugg,' said Clennam, nerving himself to go through with what he had resolved upon, and surprising that gentleman by appearing, in his despondency, to have a settled determination of purpose; 'you give me the impression that you will not be much disposed to adopt the course I have made up my mind to take.†
Chpt 2.26 (definition 2)
- 'I am a resolved woman.'†
Chpt 2.30 (definition 2)
- Monsieur says to him in effect, "My nephew, I introduce to you a lady of strong force of character, like myself—a resolved lady, a stern lady, a lady who has a will that can break the weak to powder: a lady without pity, without love, implacable, revengeful, cold as the stone, but raging as the fire."†
Chpt 2.30 (definition 2)
- Here was Fanny, proud, fitful, whimsical, further advanced in that disqualified state for going into society which had so much fretted her on the evening of the tortoise-shell knife, resolved always to want comfort, resolved not to be comforted, resolved to be deeply wronged, and resolved that nobody should have the audacity to think her so.†
Chpt 2.33 (definition 2)
- Here was Fanny, proud, fitful, whimsical, further advanced in that disqualified state for going into society which had so much fretted her on the evening of the tortoise-shell knife, resolved always to want comfort, resolved not to be comforted, resolved to be deeply wronged, and resolved that nobody should have the audacity to think her so.†
Chpt 2.33 (definition 2)
- Here was Fanny, proud, fitful, whimsical, further advanced in that disqualified state for going into society which had so much fretted her on the evening of the tortoise-shell knife, resolved always to want comfort, resolved not to be comforted, resolved to be deeply wronged, and resolved that nobody should have the audacity to think her so.†
Chpt 2.33 (definition 2)
- Here was Fanny, proud, fitful, whimsical, further advanced in that disqualified state for going into society which had so much fretted her on the evening of the tortoise-shell knife, resolved always to want comfort, resolved not to be comforted, resolved to be deeply wronged, and resolved that nobody should have the audacity to think her so.†
Chpt 2.33 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (resolve as in: How was the problem resolved?) to solve a problem, settle a disagreement, or for a situation to change
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(2) (resolve as in: I resolved to stop drinking.) to decide -- typically a firm or formal decisioneditor's notes: 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.
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(3) (resolve as in: Her resolve weakened.) firmness of purpose (strong determination to do something)