All 24 Uses of
resolve
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
- Before he read the posthumous letter he had resolved to be first among them, but afterward he was not certain of anything.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)resolved = decided
- For the next three months, each time they tried to resolve the conflict they only inflamed their feelings even more.
Chpt 1 (definition 2)resolve = solve or settle
- But by one o'clock the crisis had been resolved and only the dessert was missing: the Sisters of St. Clare were in charge of that, and they had promised to send it before eleven.
Chpt 1 (definition 2)resolved = settled or solved
- Her doubts were still unresolved on Christmas Eve, when she was shaken by the presentiment that he was in the crowd at Midnight Mass, looking at her, and this uneasiness flooded her heart.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- So the practical side of the marriage was resolved.
Chpt 2 (definition 2)resolved = settled or solved
- At least it seemed that way to Florentino Ariza when the manager told him, without his requesting it, that he had the permanent use of a room in the hotel, not only to resolve problems of the lower belly whenever he decided to do so, but so that he could have at his disposal a quiet place for his reading and his love letters.
Chpt 2 (definition 2)resolve = solve or settle
- The next day, however, when they sighted the cliffs of Caracoli, his fever had disappeared and his spirits were elated, because in the marasmus of the sedatives he had resolved once and for all that he did not give a damn about the brilliant future of the telegraph and that he would take this very same boat back to his old Street of Windows.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)resolved = decided
- It was fortunate that unforeseen circumstances, combined with her husband's understanding, resolved the first three nights without pain.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- He did not know when or how, but he considered it an ineluctable event that he was resolved to wait for without impatience or violence, even till the end of time.
Chpt 4 (definition 3)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
- There sat Leona Cassiani, lost behind a student's desk surrounded by corn stacked for shipping and unresolved papers, on the day that Uncle Leo XII himself went to see what the devil he could think of to make the General Section good for something.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- He saw no reason why Fermina Daza should not be a widow like them, prepared by life to accept him just as he was, without fantasies of guilt because of her dead husband, resolved to discover with him the other happiness of being happy twice, with one love for everyday use which would become, more and more, a miracle of being alive, and the other love that belonged to her alone, the love immunized by death against all contagion.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- The confusion caused by her rejection of Florentino Ariza, however, had not been resolved with comforting words.
Chpt 4 (definition 2)resolved = settled or solved
- Dr. Urbino, resigned to paying homage to his lineage, turned a deaf ear to her pleas, confident that the wisdom of God and his wife's infinite capacity to adapt would resolve the situation.
Chpt 4 (definition 2)resolve = solve or settle
- It had been something so unexpected for them both that they wanted to resolve it not with shouts, tears, and intermediaries, as was the custom in the Caribbean, but with the wisdom of the nations of Europe, and there was so much vacillation as to whether their loyalties lay here or over there that they ended up mired in a puerile situation that did not belong anywhere.
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- In this way she realized not only that her husband was in a state of mortal sin but that he had resolved to persist in it, since he did not go to his confessor for help.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)resolved = decided
- She had never imagined that she could suffer so much for something that seemed to be the absolute opposite of love, but she was suffering, and she resolved that the only way she could keep from dying was to burn out the nest of vipers that was poisoning her soul.
Chpt 5 (definition 1) *
- For once the initial madness was sated, they both became aware of the risks involved, and Dr. Juvenal Urbino never had the resolve to face a scandal.
Chpt 5 (definition 3)resolve = firmness of purpose
- Dr. Urbino never saw her again, not even by accident, and God alone knows how much grief his heroic resolve cost him or how many bitter tears he had to shed behind the locked lavatory door in order to survive this private catastrophe.
Chpt 5 (definition 3)
- Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, made another masculine mis-judgment: he believed that she had been convinced of the futility of her desires and had resolved to forget him.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)resolved = decided
- He sat down, holding his breath, hounded by the damnable memory of the bird droppings on his first love letter, and he remained motionless in the shadowy darkness until the first attack of shivering had passed, resolved to accept any mishap at that moment except this unjust misfortune.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- Without realizing it, he was beginning to defer his problems in the hope that death would resolve them.
Chpt 6 (definition 2) *resolve = solve or settle
- In the gloom of her mourning she had resolved not to use it again, for a widow bearing her family names could not listen to any kind of music without offending the memory of the dead, even if she did so in private.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)resolved = decided
- Neither the mediation of her son nor the intervention of her friends could break Fermina Daza's resolve.
Chpt 6 (definition 3) *resolve = firmness of purpose
- She could not conceive of a husband better than hers had been, and yet when she recalled their life she found more difficulties than pleasures, too many mutual misunderstandings, useless arguments, unresolved angers.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (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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(2) (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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(3) (resolve as in: Her resolve weakened.) firmness of purpose (strong determination to do something)