All 25 Uses of
resolve
in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
- The house now resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to consider the accommodations and arrangements for the meeting.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- Mrs. Shelby, who, greatly to her amusement, had overheard this conversation from the verandah, now resolved to do her part.
Chpt 1.6 (definition 1)resolved = decided
- ...she showed a depth of firmness and steady resolve that was never there in her earlier and happier days.
Chpt 1.13 (definition 2) *resolve = determinaton (firmness of purpose)
- He knew an abundance of simple acts to propitiate and invite the approaches of the little people, and he resolved to play his part right skilfully.
Chpt 1.14 (definition 1)resolved = decided
- When however, the fact that she had resolved to go was fully before the public mind, she was solemnly invited out to tea by all her friends and neighbors for the space of a fortnight, and her prospects and plans duly canvassed and inquired into.
Chpt 1.15 (definition 1)
- Miss Ophelia seated herself resolutely on the lately vanquished trunk, and marshalling all her goods and chattels in fine military order, seemed resolved to defend them to the last.
Chpt 1.15 (definition 2)resolved = determined (having firm purpose or having firmly decided)
- Dinah had heard, from various sources, what was going on, and resolved to stand on defensive and conservative ground,—mentally determined to oppose and ignore every new measure, without any actual observable contest.
Chpt 1.18 (definition 1)resolved = decided
- "But I always resolve I won't and I try to break off."†
Chpt 2.19 (definition 1)
- "Well, I have been resolving I won't, off and on, these ten years," said St. Clare; "but I haven't, some how, got clear.†
Chpt 2.19 (definition 1)
- 'It all resolves itself into this,' he would say; 'must I part with Stubbs, or keep him?†
Chpt 2.19 (definition 1)
- The child was announced and considered in the family as Miss Ophelia's girl; and, as she was looked upon with no gracious eye in the kitchen, Miss Ophelia resolved to confine her sphere of operation and instruction chiefly to her own chamber.†
Chpt 2.20 (definition 1)
- With a self-sacrifice which some of our readers will appreciate, she resolved, instead of comfortably making her own bed, sweeping and dusting her own chamber,—which she had hitherto done, in utter scorn of all offers of help from the chambermaid of the establishment,—to condemn herself to the martyrdom of instructing Topsy to perform these operations,—ah, woe the day!†
Chpt 2.20 (definition 1)
- I saw this very early when I became an owner; and I resolved never to begin, because I did not know when I should stop,—and I resolved, at least, to protect my own moral nature.†
Chpt 2.20 (definition 1)
- I saw this very early when I became an owner; and I resolved never to begin, because I did not know when I should stop,—and I resolved, at least, to protect my own moral nature.†
Chpt 2.20 (definition 1)
- It was Miss Ophelia, who had resolved to sit up all night with her little charge, and who, at the turn of the night, had discerned what experienced nurses significantly call "a change."†
Chpt 2.26 (definition 1)
- St. Clare had never pretended to govern himself by any religious obligation; and a certain fineness of nature gave him such an instinctive view of the extent of the requirements of Christianity, that he shrank, by anticipation, from what he felt would be the exactions of his own conscience, if he once did resolve to assume them.
Chpt 2.28 (definition 1)resolve = decide; or decision
- Seriously reflecting within herself, she considered that perhaps she had shown too hasty a warmth of language in her former interview with Marie; and she resolved that she would now endeavor to moderate her zeal, and to be as conciliatory as possible.†
Chpt 2.29 (definition 1)
- So the good soul gathered herself up, and, taking her knitting, resolved to go into Marie's room, be as agreeable as possible, and negotiate Tom's case with all the diplomatic skill of which she was mistress.†
Chpt 2.29 (definition 1)
- Ye who have wondered to hear, in the same evangel, that God is love, and that God is a consuming fire, see ye not how, to the soul resolved in evil, perfect love is the most fearful torture, the seal and sentence of the direst despair?†
Chpt 2.35 (definition 1)
- He resolved that nobody should be witness of his encounter with Tom; and determined, if he could not subdue him by bullying, to defer his vengeance, to be wreaked in a more convenient season.†
Chpt 2.36 (definition 1)
- Stung to madness and despair by the crushing agonies of a life, Cassy had often resolved in her soul an hour of retribution, when her hand should avenge on her oppressor all the injustice and cruelty to which she had been witness, or which she had in her own person suffered.†
Chpt 2.38 (definition 1)
- Neither George nor Mrs. Shelby could be easy at this result; and, accordingly, some six months after, the latter, having business for his mother, down the river, resolved to visit New Orleans, in person, and push his inquiries, in hopes of discovering Tom's whereabouts, and restoring him.†
Chpt 2.41 (definition 1)
- with his money in his pocket, our hero took steamboat for Red river, resolving to find out and re-purchase his old friend.
Chpt 2.41 (definition 1) *resolving = definitely deciding
- She began to think that he suspected something; and finally resolved to throw herself entirely on his generosity, and intrusted him with her whole history.†
Chpt 2.42 (definition 1)
- George here gave a short narration of the scene of his death, and of his loving farewell to all on the place, and added, "It was on his grave, my friends, that I resolved, before God, that I would never own another slave, while it was possible to free him; that nobody, through me, should ever run the risk of being parted from home and friends, and dying on a lonely plantation, as he died.†
Chpt 2.44 (definition 1)
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: Her resolve weakened.) firmness of purpose (strong determination to do something)