Both Uses
resolute
in
The Devil and Tom Walker
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- Many and bitter were the quarrels they had on the subject; but the more she talked, the more resolute was Tom not to be damned to please her.†
- This, however, Tom resolutely refused; he was bad enough in all conscience, but the devil himself could not tempt him to turn slave-trader.†
*resolutely = with firm purpose or belief
Definitions:
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(1)
(resolute) firm in purpose, belief, or action
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)